'Grealish and Gundogan better than Giggs and Scholes'

Tom Weber

• Updated: 16 May 2023 16:15 BST
• 3 min read

Manchester City could win a historic treble this season, and Jamie Carragher had some controversial takes on this side and their red city rivals.

The only previous English side to win the Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League in the same season is Manchester United, who famously did it in 1998/99. Pep Guardiola's men could equal this feat this term, however.

Top of the domestic table, into the FA Cup final where they will face United on June 3 and about to host Real Madrid in the second leg of their Champions League semi-final tie, Manchester City have an excellent chance of repeating the Red Devils' incredible achievement.

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Jamie Carragher and United legend Gary Neville were asked to pick a combined XI of this season's City and 1999's Red Devils players on Sky's Monday Night Football. Both made some controversial choices, to say the least.

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In what ultimately proved to be the less questionable decision, Nevill picked an exclusive Manchester United team, with the reason being that City have not got the job done just yet, therefore the right-back and his 1999 teammates were automatically better.

Carragher, meanwhile, chose six current City players, making the contentious choice to take the likes of Jack Grealish and Ilkay Gundogan over Ryan Giggs and Paul Scholes. Further, he picked Kyle Walker over Neville and Ruben Dias over Ronny Johnsen, with Kevin de Bruyne and Erling Haaland as the forward options over Dwight Yorke and Andy Cole.

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"Ryan Giggs is a better player than Grealish, but not in that season, so that's why I chose him," Carragher explained, to which Neville replied: "I love Jack Grealish, I love Ilkay Gundogan but I'm not entertaining the conversation around them over Ryan Giggs or Paul Scholes."