FOOTBALL: JERMAINE JENAS JOINS THE EXPRESS Daily Express Thursday, August 08, 2019^63
DX1STJERMAINE’S TOP FOUR
1 MANCHESTER CITY
2 LIVERPOOL
3 TOTTENHAM
4 ARSENAL
...and THREE TO DROP
Sheffield United,
Norwich and one from
Brighton, Crystal Palace
or BournemouthOBSTACLES
FOR OLE: The
fact Lukaku,
above, and
Pogba, top
centre, want to
leave United will
not help boss
Solskjaer, right,
in his bid to turn
his side into a
title force againBIG PLUS:
Jenas says
the record
signing of
Maguire
will benefit
United but
maintains
they are still
well short
of a side
that can
challenge
for the title
team. Although City only beat them to the
title by a single point, I felt there was
more to come from that front three, more
to give. The question is : do they have
another gear to find?”
Jenas believes the freakish
stockpile of points secured by City
and Liverpool last season – they won
195 out of a possible 228 between
them – will not be repeated.
He said: “The numbers last
season were ridiculous, but I
don’t see City and Liverpool
needing 100 points to win the
title this time. Leicester,
Everton and Wolves will take
enough points off the top six to
make the table more compact.”said that, Adam Lallana is back, Alex
Oxlade-Chamberlain is back and that
will give them an extra dimension in
midfield.
“And when you have arguably the best
front three in Europe already in
Mohamed Salah, Roberto Firmino
and Sadio
Mane
(below)- it’s hard
to improve
that area
of the
JURGEN KLOPP may have to find another
gear from his ‘three amigos’ in Liverpool’s
attack if they are to eclipse Manchester
City in the title race.
Jenas expects last season’s top two to
occupy the Premier League summit again
in 2019-20.
However, he fears Anfield messiah
Klopp has not supplemented his squad
enough in the transfer window to change
the pecking order.
“I can’t see past City for the title, and
the only team who look capable of
pushing them – as was the case last
season – is Liverpool,” said Jenas.
“But to go past City you have to
strengthen and I’m not sure Liverpool
have done enough in the market this
summer to overtake them. HavingKlopp needs more magic from three amigos
TOTTENHAM may not be able
to keep Mauricio Pochettino out
of Real Madrid’s clutches much
longer – and Jenas fears he may
be the next cab off the rank at
the Santiago Bernabeu.
Despite the highest win ratio
(56.2 per cent) of any Spurs
manager in 120 years,
Pochettino, below, has yet to
land his first trophy after five
years in charge.
And ex-Tottenham midfielder
Jenas, who was playing the last
time they exercised the silver
polish in their trophy room,
winning the League Cup
11 years ago, warned: “If
Mauricio gets a crazy job offer- for example, if Real
Madrid came in
for him, which
is quite
possible- who
turns down
Real
Madrid?
“If he
went there
and won
trophies, he
would be just
like a lot of other
Real Madrid managers.
“But if he could win
something big at Tottenham, it
would be very special after the
amount of time and effort he’s
put into building the team.
“If he is going to leave, he
deserves to go with a winner’s
medal in his pocket, but the fact
is Tottenham last won a trophy
in 2008 – and I can remember it
because I was playing.
“What I do know, from
speaking to the players, is that
they are desperate to break the
drought – but trophies are not
easy to come by when
Manchester City and Liverpool
are as strong as they are in every
competition.
“And I know they are
desperate to get that first piece
of silverware and get that
monkey off their back. Reaching
the Champions League final was
great, but they will look back
and wonder if they let it slip
through their fingers.”
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