When Virgil van Dijk speaks, you would be wise to listen.
The Liverpool defender has spent the season operating on cruise control muscling and bustling Premier League strikers out of his way with imperious ease.
The £75million centre-back has been the division's outstanding performer and Van Dijk was rewarded for his consistent brilliance by becoming the first centre-back since John Terry 14 years ago to win the PFA Players' Player of the Year award.
Excellence has become a matter of routine for the world's most expensive defender, but even after a 94-point haul and 20 clean sheets for the Reds this term, still they require one final-day favour.
While Jurgen Klopp's men face Wolves at home on the last day of an incredible 38-game season, champions - and current league leaders - City will travel to Brighton.
Anything other than victory for Liverpool is unthinkable for Van Dijk and his team-mates, while a draw at the AMEX could hand the Reds a 19th league title and the most glorious finale to a campaign in their history.
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It is that simple for Klopp and his players and the stakes are seriously high.
It's all hands on deck, full steam ahead, all systems go for one final - potentially era-defining - push.
Should the Reds ultimately fall short in their quest for a first title since 1990 however, it will be down to a ground-breaking City team that will have picked up 198 points over two seasons.
Van Dijk knows his team still require a favour, but his words should serve as a warning for Pep Guardiola and everyone connected to City that Liverpool - this Liverpool, under Klopp - won't be going away anytime soon.
"This is just the start for all of us, I came in last winter (January 2018) and I feel we've made so much progress since then, the club have made many big steps," said Van Dijk.
"We have to take a lot of good things from this season into next and do it again or even better. Then we will see what the rest are going to do.
"The most important thing is to keep doing it every year."
Falling short in pursuit of a Hollywood-style ending to this utterly compelling Premier League season will leave the Reds facing up to the prospect of picking themselves off the canvas and going again next year.
Their inability to clinch the title won't be viewed as a 'failure' inside the corridors of Melwood, but will leave people with the realisation that an even better season than this will be needed next time around.
It's a prospect Van Dijk is steeling himself for.
He added: "If we have to do it next season with over 100 points we will try and do it.
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"But we are still in it [this year] and we have to believe, but we have to be realistic as well.
"It's not in our hands and the only thing we can do is beat Wolves."
"It is on, but you have to be realistic. The way City have been playing all season everyone should expect them to win.
"But you never know and the only thing we can do is focus on beating Wolves, because that is a very big task as well."
In a week that has already seen two of the most unlikely and jaw-dropping turnarounds you will witness in football, hope has been somewhat renewed heading to Anfield on Sunday afternoon.
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In pure football terms, what Liverpool require this weekend is not near the same level of a comeback against Barcelona that will eventually reach mythical proportions.
Nor is it as unfathomable as Lucas Moura netting a half-hour hat-trick to send Spurs to the Champions League final at Ajax's expense in Amsterdam 24 hours later.
"Everyone is talking about Brighton doing something, but we need to focus on what is in front of us because Wolves have been outstanding this season and make it difficult for any team," added Van Dijk to Sky Sports .
"That's why they are where they are in the table.
"But we're at home, it's our last game of the season and we want to give everything we've got, and we will.
"If we win we've done our job, we will have done what we could do and then we will see what will happen at Brighton."
Whatever happens at the climax of this unforgettable campaign, Van Dijk is right to say it - Liverpool will be back in August.
And after this week's scarcely believable events, it just could be as Premier League champions.
