In 1990, 30 years ago now, Liverpool were lifting their 18th league championship title . With Ian Rush and John Barnes as benchmarks, with Kenny Dalglish as coach and still an occasional player as well, the ' Reds ' reaffirmed their status as the best club in the history of England. They already had twice as many championships with the next two most successful clubs, Arsenal and Everton , both with nine titles. The Manchester United shared with Aston Villa the next step seven leagues. Now he is 20 .

Liverpool couldn't imagine that this title would end the most glorious decade and a half in its history, much less that it would be the beginning of a huge league title drought , the longest ever known on Anfield Road . 30 years in which England has known up to seven different champions (Arsenal, Leeds, United, Blackburn, Chelsea, City and Leicester) and none has been Liverpool. Can you imagine 30 years without Real Madrid winning a single League ? Well that is what has happened in England.

The anomaly has finally found the correction it had been seeking for so many years. Liverpool is again champion, first-time winner of the Premier League , founded in 1992. Manchester City's stumble at Stamford Bridge (2-1) brings the game to the 31st round, with seven still to be disputed , and liquidates the uncertainty of when, since what takes months more than clear. Since autumn, it has been written that Jürgen Klopp's team would raise the Premier, since it has lacked a rival thanks to the infernal rhythm that it has put at the head of the classification.

The data is scary. Liverpool pulls the bag with 28 wins in 31 games . He has only yielded two draws , in the Old Trafford classic and in the Merseyside derby at Goodison Park, and a surprising 3-0 loss at Watford's home. Klopp's meat grinder , which won the Champions League last year, has been optimized without the need for significant signings, beyond Adrián San Miguel as substitute goalkeeper and Japanese Minamino in January, both with a very residual role.

The keys have been those already known. An impeccable goalkeeper ( Alisson ), the best center-back in the world ( Van Dijk ), two exalted wingers ( Alexander-Arnold and Robertson ), a captain who exudes leadership ( Henderson ) and the most compensated and synchronized offensive trident on the planet ( Salah, Firmino and Mané ). Along with them, men like Wijnaldum, Fabinho, Gomez, Matip, Oxlade-Chamberlain or Milner have starred in a huge Premier a course after winning the Champions League at the Metropolitan, a title that they will not be able to revalidate after their unexpected elimination in the round of 16 at the hands of the Athletic .

But if the title has its own name, that is Jürgen Klopp. The German coach came to a club five years ago embarrassed by his present and self-conscious about his past and has made him what he is today, surely the best team in the world. The verticality, dynamism and vertigo have been the signs of the gradual growth of this Liverpool until reaching something very similar to excellence, with a Champions and a Premier already as baggage. The age of the squad, all headlines below 30, suggests that the 'network' team will have the ability to continue what has been achieved so far over the next few seasons. Klopp, renewed in December, has a contract in force until 2024. If completed, he would spend nine years on the Anfield bench.

And now that? Liverpool have already won the Premier League, but they are not going to get carried away in the rest of the league. Already champion, the earliest in history, the challenge now is to be the best champion ever . He needs to add 15 of the 21 points he has left to overcome for the first time in the history of English football the barrier of 100 points, set by the City two seasons ago. He also needs five victories to overcome the 32 that Guardiola's team achieved then and can become the first team as long as he wins his 19 home matches. Barbarities only within the reach of this superlative Liverpool.

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