Ruben Dias wades into confrontation after Alexander-Arnold trophy jibe

Ruben Dias has turn into the newest Manchester City participant to hit again at Trent Alexander-Arnold’s remark that Liverpool’s success beneath Jurgen Klopp ‘means more’.

Alexander-Arnold made the inflammatory comment forward of crunch match between the 2 sides at Anfield on Sunday, which may show pivotal within the Premier League title race.

The Liverpool star appeared to deduce that City have purchased their solution to 14 main trophies with Pep Guardiola as supervisor.

Dias has responded to Alexander-Arnold’s suggestion by insisting he would solely have the ability to know the feelings of Man City gamers and followers to their Treble success ‘whenever you really do it.’

‘We’ve received rather a lot on this membership, particularly final yr with the Treble. I feel it is fairly sure between us, between our followers, how a lot it meant to all of us,’ Dias informed BBC Radio Manchester.

Ruben Dias has turn into the newest Man City participant to hit again at Trent Alexander-Arnold

Dias, proper, urged the Liverpool star couldn’t know the sensation of profitable the Treble

Alexander Arnold had urged Liverpool’s trophies win extra to their followers than Man City’s

‘At the top of the day you’ll be able to solely have sure feelings in the event you really win stuff. A Treble is a sense you’ll be able to solely know the way it feels whenever you really do it.

‘I feel in a membership like Man City and my earlier membership [Benfica] our greatness will probably be proven in a method that these feedback do not have an effect on us.

‘We know what we have carried out, we all know what we have conquered, we all know what we’re going for in what’s to come back. We do not do it for anybody else, we do it for ourselves.

‘Other individuals’s success is deserved for their very own achievements. What we concentrate on is ourselves and that is the best way to maneuver ahead and that is the best way to be large, an enormous membership. 

‘Not attempting to touch upon different individuals’s success and attempting to make it greater or smaller relying on how handy it’s for you.’

In an interview with FourFourTwo, Alexander-Arnold – who has six profession honours – had urged their particular person items of silverware have extra worth.

‘Looking back on this era, although they’ve (City) won more titles than us and have probably been more successful, our trophies will mean more to us and our fanbase because of the situations at both clubs financially,’ the defender mentioned.

‘How both clubs have built their teams and the manner in which we’ve done it, probably means more to our fans. t’s robust. We’re up towards a machine that’s constructed to win – that’s the only solution to describe City and their organisation.’

The theme of Alexander-Arnold’s argument is just like intermittent remarks made by Klopp all through his 9 years in cost.

Erling Haaland has responded to Trent Alexander-Arnold’s feedback forward of their match

Liverpool have already lifted the Carabao Cup this season and are within the operating so as to add one other three trophies

Liverpool’s advertising mantra of ‘this means more’ has been operating for years and is splashed throughout the Anfield tunnel.

City stay in all three main competitions after progressing into the Champions League quarter-finals on Wednesday evening. Liverpool, who’ve already lifted the Carabao Cup this season, are nonetheless within the hunt for 4 trophies. 

Dias is the second Man City participant to publicly reply to Alexander-Arnold’s remarks, after Erling Haaland gave a sarcastic reply to the Liverpool star.

‘If he wants to say that, OK,’ Haaland told Sky Sports.

‘I’ve been right here one yr and I’ve received the Treble and it was fairly a pleasant feeling. I don’t assume he is aware of precisely this sense.’

The confrontation has ramped up the rivalry between the 2 sides additional forward of Sunday’s conflict.

Only some extent separates them within the title race and for what could possibly be a closing assembly between Klopp and Guardiola earlier than the German departs in the summertime.