LIVERPOOL'S new £10m signing El Hadji Diouf dismissed Alex Ferguson's claim that every player wants to join Manchester United.
The Senegal World Cup star said: "Lens are the best club in France, and Liverpool are the strongest side over here. They are the absolute top.
"Everything at this club is bigger, better and more impressive. It is all very imposing - the facilities, the atmosphere and the squad. I feel that I'm going to enjoy myself here."
The former Lens striker also claimed he could not care less about Liverpool's title rivals.
The 21-year-old played in the Reds' 1-0 Community Shield defeat by Arsenal on Sunday. And despite experts and bookmakers alike making the Double-winning Gunners and United their favourites for the title, Diouf - nicknamed the Serial Killer - believes his new side can blow their opponents away.
"I don't care about them. Arsenal, Manchester United and the others don't matter to me. Liverpool are my only concern. I put all the other teams on the same level, and I hope that they will all be behind us at the end of the season.
"Our main challenge will be to win the maximum number of trophies this season, and I would love to lift as many as the team did two years ago.
"I know that the club has waited a long time for the league title, and I don't see why we can't win it this season.
"My greatest dream would be to meet Lens in the final of the Champions League. That would be amazing.
"Liverpool were in contact with me from the start of May. I had other offers, from Valencia, Inter Milan, Parma and West Ham, but Liverpool were my dream club.
"They are a team I have followed since I was a kid. I used to watch their European Cup games on TV, and I loved their style of play and the way they never gave up.
"They are a club any player would want to join. England was my preference as the atmosphere at games is red hot, and I love to play in that sort of setting."
Diouf has been well received by his new team-mates and coaching staff, with Michael Owen nicknaming him "Dioufy" and assistant boss Sammy Lee helping him settle in.
But he admitted: "I can't understand a word of Sammy's English. His accent is so strong I first thought he was speaking in German!
"But I've not come over to speak French - I am here to win trophies. After my first game the penny dropped for me just where I am, and I kept on saying to myself that one day I will be able to tell my children that I have played alongside Owen, Dietmar Hamann and Emile Heskey.
"I've been warned that the food in England is none too good, so I'll have to watch out.
"But there is great trust between Gerard Houllier and myself. And I now want to show him he was right to have faith in me as soon as possible."
Jamie Carragher also believes Liverpool have genuine title credentials, lifted by beating Manchester United three times last season.
Liverpool finished above the Old Trafford side and Carragher feels getting the better of their north west rivals was a major breakthrough.
"The real boost was to have finished above Manchester United," he said. "In the past couple of seasons we've done well against them but we've always, in the past, deep down not really fancied it much when we have played them. That has changed.
"It gave us a lot of confidence because they were a great side and brought a lot of new players in last summer, so to finish above them was a great boost for us all."