Kyle Walker has admitted he would choose winning another Premier League title over a first Champions League crown this season with Manchester City.
The Blues can go a long way towards securing another league triumph this season as they face nearest challengers Liverpool on Sunday. With just one point separating the two sides ahead of kick-off, City have the chance to create some breathing space heading into their final run-in.
The title showdown at the Etihad begins a pivotal week for City in their quest for a historic treble. They travel to Spain in midweek for the second leg of their Champions League quarter-final against Atletico Madrid, before facing Liverpool again at Wembley on Saturday in the FA Cup semi-finals.
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That elusive European crown is the only thing missing from their trophy cabinet, and has been the club’s most sought-after prize for some years now. Walker though made the surprise admission that he still favours a league triumph over European glory this season.
“I’ll get killed for saying this but I’d still probably say the Premier League,” Walker told The Telegraph. “Just because, growing up in England, knowing what it means and how hard it is to win one … I look at some players who have won it countless times. Why can’t I go and do that?”
Walker added: “You look at the Manchester United team that was winning everything. Okay, Arsenal came in and they won here and there and had the Invincibles but good teams don’t get bored of winning and the feeling of winning doesn’t get boring.
“When I first walked up the Wembley steps to pick up the Carabao Cup [in 2018], it was a relief but I got the addiction. Whereas before I was normally at the team standing down at the bottom giving the token gesture clap.
“That’s not addictive. You don’t want to do that. It’s the worst position in football I’ve felt where you’re clapping another team that has gone and beaten you and they’re lifting the trophy you dreamt of winning. I’d rather just not do it. People may say, ‘Okay, but that’s bad sportsmanship’. Well, I’m here to win. I don’t want to be clapping the winners because I’ve come second.”
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