Liverpool will need to be ‘near perfect’ next season to challenge for the title, after struggling with consistency over the last campaign, admits .
The Reds had a really disappointing 2022/23, winning just 19 of their 38 Premier League games as they finished fifth in the table.
’s side will be targeting a title challenge next time round, but they finished 22 points behind champions this year, so there is a lot of work to do.
Alexander-Arnold knows that they will need to be somewhere near their best for an entire season to compete with Pep Guardiola’s men, admitting that the Reds struggled with consistency over the last 12 months.
‘If you’d asked us this time last year, would you want to finish fifth, we’d have all said no and same again now,’ the England international told Sky Sports.
‘Would we want to finish fifth next season? No. We want to be winning the league, we want to be challenging and being in title races and in football so to not be in that next season is disappointing.
‘We know how to win the league, we know how to challenge City and go toe to toe with them and you need to be near perfect throughout the season so for us that’s where our heads are at.’
On where they went wrong last season, he said: ‘It’s consistency. Throughout the season we had good results against the big teams but we dropped points and sloppy points away from home especially, so these are the things that we’ve all naturally thought about that we need to correct.’
The majority of the Liverpool squad were back in training on Tuesday to get their pre-season underway, including new signings Alexis Mac Allister and Dominik Szoboszlai.
Their pre-season fixtures begin on 19 July against Karlsruhe in Germany.
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