What separated us from City and Liverpool last year was consistency over the course of a season along with a lack of confident finishers.
Head to head... there isn't much in it.. and it would be fair to say, we bettered them in head to head meetings and if not for the mentioned lack of goal scorers we would have beaten both convincingly last season in several games.
So far we have brought in Sterling who knows where the goal is. We have Havertz going into his 3rd season now, already showing signs of adaptation last season with adding aggression to his game. There are rumours we may be in for Gnabry and if we do somehow bring in Lewa... then I can't see why we aren't able to stand toe to toe with City and Liverpool... especially now we are brining in KK to play alongside Silva, James and the returning Chilwell.