Jurgen Klopp believes Mikel Arteta will have Arsenal challenging for titles in the near future.
The two sides will face-off at the Emirates on Wednesday night.
And when asked if Arteta's Arsenal will be challenging his title winners in years to come, Klopp replied: "Unfortunately, probably yes! It looks very much so.
"Mikel is part of this very exciting new coaching generation, or manager generation. Really exciting to watch; you can see the ideas behind obviously, influenced by Pep [Guardiola], he worked together with him.
"Probably they had the same idea already before, when Mikel was still a player. Yes, you can see a massive influence of him. On top of that, obviously at Arsenal [there is] a really exciting squad, all the different offensive [players].
"They have more experienced offensive players with massive quality, and then coming up a lot of really, really good ones. So, yes, it looks like Arsenal will be a proper challenger again."
