Manchester United boss Erik ten Hag still believes his side can win the Premier League in the next year or two.
The Dutch coach had to settle for a Carabao Cup success in his first season in England.
After securing Champions League football with a third placed league finish, Ten Hag is adamant that Manchester City's era can come to an end.
He told The Mail: I think we have proven we can beat them [Man City] but you have to do it every day and in this moment we have a way to go. City are also winning their games much more easily than we did, so I see the facts.
But I don't want to talk about them because it sounds negative and it's not the way I meant it. I want to talk about our project. I want to talk about how we improve, and I think the improvements last year and the result were quite obvious.
But also in the performance, it was quite obvious that we could beat the big opponents and also City. In the three games you saw, absolutely that we increased the levels against them.
We are looking for ourselves and not looking at other teams. We have a competition with seven or eight clubs in the Premier League, across Europe even more teams, so we have to work on our way of play and improve our performance. It has to be optimum."