Liverpool legend John Aldridge feels Chelsea and Manchester City could now dominate Europe.
He wrote for the Sunday World: "Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp will not have been concerned by what he saw in last weekend's Champions League final.
"Chelsea deserved to win on a night when Manchester City bottled it once again in the one competition they want to win more than any other. The truth is a full-strength Liverpool side would fancy their chances of beating both of them if the season was starting tomorrow.
"I'm no fan of Chelsea. They are a club that have been dragged up from the depths of nowhere by a Russian billionaire who has enough spare change to pay off half of the world's debt.
"Instead, he used his vast wealth to turn football into a big-money game, in which only the stinking rich can really compete.
"Manchester City have a similar story. Their success has been bankrolled by an Arab state, looking to promote their Abu Dhabi homeland as an attractive holiday location.
"Football is being used as a vehicle for that aim.
"However, despite having unlimited funds, City keep fluffing their lines in the Champions League – and it happened again last Saturday in their first-ever final in that competition.
"City have developed this arrogant air about them in the last few years, having had plenty of success in domestic competitions.
"But a club's reputation these days is built on how many European Cups they have won, and the current table reads: Liverpool 6, City 0.
"While I'm confident that a fit-and-firing Liverpool could finish ahead of both City and Chelsea in next season's Premier League, what happens from this point forward could change that belief."
