We are watching a very good Liverpool team on the brink of greatness.

My suspicion is that during the course of his reign, Arnold Schlott and the recruitment team above him will have constructed a better squad.

When a team win in the league, you anticipate one or two big signers to keep a juggerna up moving.

In all honesty, when looking at Slots Squad, it feels like you may need as many as six before next summer. That is a statement you would expect to make about an underperforming team, a one requiring an overhaul. Welcome to it was what it was, the football history podcast. I'm John Lennon Wilson and with Rob Draper. And that was Jamie Carriger in his column in The Telegraph in early April.

Talk about the slightly strange position, the slight strange reaction to this Liverpool's side, who have just won the title.

And in this episode, we're going to be looking at Liverpool's champions past and trying to place Schlott's side in the context of where does it stand among their 20 sides who have won the league title. So in the first part

of this two-part series, we looked at Arna Schlaught, his background where he stands in the great

tradition of Dutch coaches. Today we're looking more at the Liverpool side of things, where Schlott's side stands

among their 20 lead title winners. So Rob, where are we going to start with, this long history?

Well, we should say it's a very high bar that we're holding on in Slots team because we aren't

going to be talking about some of the greatest teams, I think, in English and European history. And that is the weight, the heft of Liverpool Football Club, isn't it? If we talk

about 7980, 83, 84, you know, even 8788 and even Klop's team, these are fantastic sides,

and we haven't even mentioned Shankly in that. But, Jonathan, as we have you on the show and seeing as you are the top football historian

about all things slightly obscure and no one else has read about,

I did think we should have a little passing nod to the early Liverpool champions,

which I think is fascinating in his own respect,

because Liverpool won the league in 1901 and 906, which is very early days. They were one of the big early emerging

powers of English football. They then win it in, in two years in succession in 1920,

in 1923, no wins then until 1947. So the sense of when Shankly gets there,

that we've talked about Sunderland in the previous episode,

for obvious reasons, giving your affinity to them.

But I think the sense that Liverpool are a falling giant when Shankly gets there,

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