Liverpool strength is not new and the team has been elite for a long while too; they just had an injury ravaged season inn the previous campaign which derailed their performance and forced them down only to Europa league spot in the previous campaign. Can Liverpool push for the Europa league title and top 4 simultaneously? Time will tell
Liverpool is definitely the clear favourites to win this year’s Europa league, this is subjective to changes considering which of the clubs that will fall down from the champions league. Even if this clubs come down they a Liverpool team will challenge just any. Liverpool had a bad season last season because of the departures mostly notably Mane, he left the club and broke the trio between him, Salah and Firmino. Liverpool clear replacement for him had a very bad season. Although Nunez scored some goals, but his wasting of chances was what affected Liverpool the more and also they had all their senior midfielders missing most part of the season due to injuries. All this contributed to their poor start and after regaining form towards the end of the season they couldn’t make the UCL
The other club I guess can rival Liverpool for the trophy currently is Bayern Leverkusen. They look like an established team under Xabi Alonso’s management. They are second on the Bundesliga table same point with Bayern Munich. I believe they are capable to take Liverpool on