Manchester United will win Premier League title before Liverpool, claims Gary Neville

Despite finishing second last season, Neville does not believe Liverpool will end their title drought before United reclaim the Premier League

Gary Neville believes Manchester United will emerge from their post-Alex Ferguson rut to win the Premier League before Liverpool manage to end their drought.

United have not won the title since Ferguson’s last season in charge at Old Trafford in 2012/13, which has been followed by six seasons of toil under David Moyes, Louis van Gaal and Jose Mourinho.

Neville’s former teammate and close friend Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has since been tasked with investing in youth to get United back to the top of English football, having seen Manchester City and Liverpool assert themselves as the dominant pair over the last two seasons, and United made a strong start to the new campaign last weekend with a 4-0 demolition of Chelsea.

But the victory at Old Trafford clearly has Neville feeling optimistic once more as the former United defender boldly claimed that he expects United to regain the title before Liverpool can, with the Reds having not conquered the top flight since 1989/90.

“Liverpool, City, Tottenham - all these clubs have had poor recruitment policies over the last 25-30 years at times, so United are going through one at the moment,” he said on Sky Sports.

“Eventually they’ll stumble across the right recruitment system, the right recruitment people. We’ll get a great manager - hopefully that’s Ole - and they’ll start to win again. That’s going to happen, I can guarantee you as clear as day Manchester United will win again, they’ll win again no problem. They’ll win a league - probably win the league before Liverpool in my opinion, I’m not being disrespectful.”

The claim, said while sitting next to former Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher, unsurprisingly triggered a response as Neville was quickly taunted over when they would win the Champions League again, following Liverpool’s triumph in Madrid last June.

But Neville persisted with his argument, and proceeded to taunt Liverpool fans by claiming he could “absolutely guarantee” that star forward Mohamed Salah will leave them next summer.

“They’re closer than you think and they’re not as bad as you think, that’s always the way it is,” he said. “With Liverpool, Salah’s going to leave in the next 12 months - I can see it already. He (Carragher) knows - he won’t say it - but Salah will leave, I can absolutely guarantee it because he will. I can feel it, you can smell it, it’s there.”