Just to add a bit on why I think this is RS team is the best team I’ve seen from England since following the game in ‘91.
The four previous contenders are
Man United (Beckham, Scholes, Giggs, Keane)
Arsenal (Henry, Bergkamp, Pires, Vieria)
Chelsea (Terry, Lampard, Drogba, Robben)
Man City (De Bruyne, Silva, Aguero, Kompany)
Arsenal were by far the best to watch, and Henry is the #1 player in the Premier League era. They had a soft underbelly though. Their “invincible” team had 12 draws, and in those draws Pires took a dive to win a late pen to make it 1-1 vs Portsmouth. They also achieved diddly squat in the CL. Their style was very one dimensional (a great one, but they couldn’t dig in). Recall Inter running riot at Highbury, Arsenal had no answer. Chelsea did them too, Wayne Bridge dumping them out. Never retained the PL either.
Chelsea. Machine-like like the RS team. They did however lose two big CL semis to the RS. They weren’t the greatest to watch with Drogba a battering ram type forward. It was effective, but ugly. No deft touches of a Firmnio, nor the attacking qualities of playmaker RS full backs.
Man City. As great a side as they are, they are Barcelona-lite. Like all Peps teams, their attack is their defence. It’s all about ball retention in midfield (aided with full backs playing as wide midfielders). Once you get through the high press there is gaps aplenty at the back, and this is exposed in the CL when better teams are able to carve them open and exploit this weakness. Pep has not been to another CL final in almost a decade (2011). He had Xavi and Iniesta playing keep ball in midfield back then which meant the Barca backline had the deckchairs out, a luxury he hasn’t had since. Defensively he’s always been weak.
Man U. Best club side throughout this period. Issue is the best parts of their best XI are in different United teams. Midfield and gk, treble season, defence and attack, 2008. In 2009 and 2011 CL finals they got taken to the cleaners (admittedly by the best club side I’ve ever seen). Even their treble season, they got 80 points. The RS team got 97 points finishing runners up. The league was weaker in Fergies earlier PL years. Full of domestic players there wasn’t the influx of all the best players from all over the world. Fergie facing Roy Evans or Kevin Keegan as opposing mangers, today he’d be facing the elite.
The RS stats are early 90s AC Milan level. As I said, back to back CL finals. Haven’t lost a two legged European tie in five years. Haven’t lost a league game at home since April 2017. One league defeat home or away since May 2018. They are on course to be the current champions of all three governing bodies they play under, the FA, UEFA, FIFA.