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Graeme Souness has told Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool side that they can only be considered 'great' once they have won multiple Premier League and Champions League titles.

The Reds currently boast a 16 point lead at the top of the Premier League as they look set to claim their first league crown since 1990.

Klopp's men, who are currently the champions of Europe and the world, have dropped only two points all season and are on a 39 games unbeaten run in the Premier League.

But ex-Liverpool star Souness thinks that despite their record breaking feats, the current Anfield heroes are not able to consider themselves a "great side".

"You can't say they're a great team until they win back to back leagues, a few European cups, but I think they will get there," Souness said on Sky Sports.

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"City have made it easy for them this year, because they haven't had the pressure. Liverpool are on fire, they feel they can win every game. They're playing with a freedom that many teams don't have."

Souness' view was backed by Manchester United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer in the build-up to the Red Devils' 2-0 defeat to Liverpool, courtesy of Virgil van Dijk and Mohamed Salah's strikes.

Solskjaer was asked about the comparison between this Liverpool team and the one he was a part of at United in 1999.

"If you are taking the long view, the very best teams are the ones who can do it again and again and again," Solskjaer said.

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"No one really matches Sir Alex [Ferguson] in that respect but I would be the first to admit Jurgen Klopp has done a great job at Liverpool.

"At the moment he seems to know what he’s going to get every time he puts a team out, though we are only just past halfway through the season and there are still a lot of games to go.

"If you look at Liverpool now, they have 33 wins and five draws from their last 38 [league] games. That's 104 points, so it would have been a more than decent season.

"They are doing well, to say the least, and could win a treble this season but let's see where they are in May. They have a couple of difficult games coming up."

Roy Keane added on Sky Sports: "They [Liverpool] have been brilliant in Europe over the past few years, and everyone's been getting carried away with them because they are so brilliant.

"But this will be their first league title. You've got to win a few league titles first."