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Ryan Giggs discusses how Liverpool and Man City compare to Man Utd treble winners


Ryan Giggs insisted the Manchester United side which won the treble in the 1998-1999 season were stronger than the current Liverpool and Manchester City teams.

Last season Pep Guardiola’s Man City became the first side to win the domestic treble of the Premier League, FA Cup and League Cup in one season, although they crashed out of the Champions League to Tottenham in the quarter finals.

Liverpool, meanwhile, won their sixth European Cup last season and finished runners-up in the Premier League with a staggering 97 points, and look on course to win their first top flight title since 1990 this season, with nine wins and a draw from their first ten games.

Jurgen Klopp and Pep Guardiola have developed arguably two of the greatest side in English footballing history

Despite the obvious strength of both Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp’s sides, who collectively have set the record for the top three points tallies in Premier League history over the last two seasons, Giggs said he was sure the 1998-1999 side- which included stars such as himself, David Beckham, Roy Keane and Paul Scholes- would win the Premier League this year if they came up against City and Liverpool.

Speaking on The United Stand Giggs said: “Would the 1999 team win the league? 100 per cent. It would not be easy, but we would. The City side are fantastic, wth a fantastic coach, but that team was something special.”

When asked about the greatest teams he played for, Giggs again said he couldn’t look past Sir Alex Ferguson’s team of 1998-1999.

Treble winners in 1999
Manchester United won the treble in 1999

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“I must say the first double-winning team, 93/94, that was a good team,” he added. “We didn’t do well in Europe but that was a special team.

“The 2007/2008 team was ridiculous, with ridiculous players. But the best team will always be 1999 for what we achieved, stregnth in depth and what they had, but it is very difficult to separate those three teams.”





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