SLOT: PREM STILL THE PRIZED GEM

ARNE SLOT insists winning the Premier League is still the ultimate achievement.

- BY SIMON MULLOCK

The Liverpool boss accepts that pundits can have an opinion on whether the standard of the top flight in England has fallen during a season which has seen his team turn the title race into a procession.

But the Dutchman is adamant that, after a week which saw second-placed Arsenal knock holders Real Madrid out of the Champions League and Aston Villa push Paris Saint-Germain to their limits, the Prem remains the best in the world.

Liverpool can take another step closer to being crowned champions when they travel to Leicester today.

And Slot said: "The nice part of a pundit's job is you can write about something in two ways - positive or negative.