Take away the Europa League I have no doubt we'd of finished the top 4 last year. We finished 6 points outside of 4th and we basically tanked the last 5 games in view of the Europa League playing the under 5's every other game.
So yeah, with no Europe this year allied to that, if there wasn't a serious challenge I'd be disappointed. We've seen first hand how much better they are when Klopp has longer to prepare for games and work with them longer on the training pitch. Having full weeks between games should make a heck of a difference too in that regard.
I suppose everyone has their own expectation... I was assuming the league was going to be tougher this year but having seen the signings so far, it may well not be. Still very early days though, I mean it's easy to forget that we're just two days officially into the transfer window. There has been a lot of business already when you look at it that way.