Manchester City begun their title defence with a resounding 5-0 away victory over West Ham United at the London Stadium on Saturday after last season’s nearest challengers Liverpool had blown away Norwich City 4-1 a day earlier.
The champions began the game without Leroy Sane, who is expected to miss up to seven months with a knee injury, while the likes of Sergio Aguero, Bernardo Silva, Ilkay Gundogan and new £60m recruit Joao Cancelo all started from the bench.
Jose Mourinho is working as a pundit for Sky Sports for their coverage of the 2019/2020 Premier League season, and giving his thoughts on how the league will shape up, the former Manchester United and Chelsea manager highlighted City’s strength in depth will ultimately work in their favour.
Asked how many teams can win the title this term, Mourinho replied: "Four. Manchester City, Tottenham, Liverpool and City's B team.
"When I looked at the bench yesterday [Saturday] and the players that were not even involved, I believe even their B team could fight for the title."
"I want to say the obvious thing: we would love United, Arsenal and Chelsea to be at that level," he added.
"Sometimes in football unbelievable things can happen, but we are speaking about a team that last season won everything, we are speaking about the European champions, we are speaking about the European runners-up.
"We are speaking about United that finished sixth and Arsenal that finished fifth."
