VINCENT KOMPANY admits Manchester City will have to dominate English football before they can start calling themselves special.
The City skipper insists even winning the title this season will be nothing out of the ordinary for the club.
The centre-back, 31, said: “I don’t want to put people on a pedestal when we haven’t achieved all of our targets.
“We have won the title with Mancini and with Pellegrini, scoring hundreds of goals has been a feature of this club for many years now.
“So we can only say that this team will be better than the previous ones if we can win the Premier League then go again and again.
“I want to keep that hunger in the team. So all I can say is well done for what we have done so far this season but we have to keep going.”
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City are currently 13 points clear at the top of the Premier League — with a game in hand — and need 18 points from their remaining 11 games to be certain of winning the title.
With the Carabao Cup in the bag, Kompany is now targeting Champions League success.
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They look certainties for the quarter-finals after crushing Basel 4-0 in the away leg of their last-16 tie earlier this month.
And Kompany said: “There is belief that we can do well in the Champions League but we are not favourites above the big clubs like Madrid and Barcelona.
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“PSG are a great team but they’ve gone to Madrid and we all saw what happened there. So we have to be careful about saying too much.
“We are just trying to fight our way in there with the Champions League contenders and maybe shake things up a little bit.
“But it’s too early to call it and first we have to complete the second leg against Basel.”
Kompany looks set to have Sergio Aguero alongside him after the striker promised to see out his contract after leading City to another trophy.
The Argentine’s future has again been in doubt this season, with Pep Guardiola showing interest in Alexis Sanchez.
But Aguero has dealt with the speculation by scoring more, with his opener against Arsenal on Sunday bringing up 30 for the season.
His current deal lasts until 2020, meaning he would have spent nine years with City.
Aguero, 29, said: “While I have a contract, I’ll stay here. I’m very happy. Guardiola is one of the best coaches in the world and the most demanding I’ve had.”
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