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Initially fifa cancelled the club world cup and decided to host an extended version before the world cup but they have decided to bring it back in its current format for all continental winners. I am glad they did because this trophy has never been won by the club so I would love to see us win it and add it to the collection. They only downside to this competition is we have to play it mid season so we will be playing catch up on the league. We are entered in the semi finals so its 2 games only.

We also have another chance at silverware in the Super cup against Chelsea who have sold Hazard so we won't have to worry about him so again another great chance to win a trophy, I hope we win both as that will complete the CL set.

Next up is the Community shield against Mancheater City, another one off game and another chance at winning a trophy, it would be great to beat them and set a marker for the season and also gives us the shield which we haven't won in many years.

Finally the domestic cups need to be improved on, year after year we crash out in the first or second hurdle which is annoying and keeps us waiting for a Wembley final another year. The draws have not been great for us recently but the club needs to start taking them seriously and hopefully with a better squad next season we will start seeing results.

Personally, I think there is a great opportunity to add some trophies and build these lads up expecting more and more everytime they play a final, I know some of these trophies are meaningless to some fans but I would love to see the lads scoop some or all of them.

Rumour has it the club has asked to be withdrawn from the comp, Fifa said no.. We inquired regarding sending U23 side - Fifa stated we are obligated to send the best squad to Qatar for the comp.....

So I am lead to believe.. Think it played late Dec / Jan, not the best for Xmas period, no.

Maybe we can pull out of the FA Cup like the fecking Mancs did - can't ruin the Fecked cup anymore...Bet we would be denied that if we asked the FA...

Having to travel to Qatar in December though?

Klopp likes a warm weather break!

I can see this seriously impacting our PL challenge with a fixture backlog and extra games if City are anything like they were the last 2 seasons (no reason to think they will not be).

Why would it impact our season? Its only a 1 week event. City were playing catch up until the last weeks of the season, it didn't bother them as they ended with 3 trophies.

Here is a quick breakdown of our season the next one...

Liverpool’s fixtures 2019-20

Pre-season tour to US – 3 matches (20-25 July)
Community Shield – 1 match (Date TBC)
Premier League – 38 matches (10 August-17 May)
European Super Cup – 1 match (14 August)
Champions League – 13 matches (17 September-30 May)
League Cup – 6 matches (September-February)
Club World Cup – 2 matches (December)
FA Cup – 7 matches excluding replays (January-May)
Total: 71 matches (68 without friendlies)

Qatar is before FA 3rd round, 8.5k round trip to Qatar I believe in the busiest period of the season...

I think it's in Qatar's winter so temps will be warmish but not stifling hot. The problem I have is mid season to a place known to violate and flout human rights laws. There's also the fact "if" at the time it's turning into a 2 horse race again - Us v City, how easy would it be for the players to be nobbled out there? Let's face it there was a few players who got ill on our last trip over that way, end of January to Dubai and we all know those folks don't play by the rules!

Snakes - City got two teams, that most of their players would get into most PL sides, that the difference.. Our subs are not as good at mo, meaning NO side has the depth of city.

There's a reason they being investigated financially...

It's 2 games believe as we eneter at the SF phase, but also travel. Xmas is the busiest time of the season with fixtures in short spaces of time and the FA Cup, City have a stronger squad, so could cope with the fixtures better than us, they can bring on the likes of Sane/Mahrez/Jesus/Gundogan, if this PL is as close as last season, this could be the thing that is the difference.

This is assuming we are challenging City at that stage of the season? If not I'd rather go and win a trophy that the club has never won before.

Lots of ifs, all we can presume/hope is that we will challenge, the PL is the trophy most fans want.

At least we will know by the time this competition starts whether we are challenging or not for PL, so as you say, if we are not, we go all out to win it. I never said I didn't want to win it, just that it could affect our PL challenge (if we are in one), the competition will be covered allot around the world (even if the profile isn't high in UK) so it will be good for the club profile.

If we don’t needlessly sell any players and strengthen we’ll, why can’t we cope with two extra games whether they’re in Qatar or not? This is what happens when you’re successful. It’s tough at the top and all that but I’d rather we be going than not as it means we’ve actually won something.

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What do you mean? And btw, Qatar and UAE are not on good terms, not even talking to each other

Nobody is preventing us to have a deeper squad and money should not be a problem. So if we are serious about winning the EPL, we need to show it n action.

I agree, I think we should sign players of their quality to improve our squad and rival City, we have money and our profile has never been higher, so we should use that to attract the top players, the problem is all the noises from the club and assosciated reporters in the know is that there are no big signings coming in, just a few small signings for cover, which in my book is not strengthening the squad.

Hopefully this is just a clever smoke screen and we get some top signings like we did with Fab & Alisson.

We'll find out how ambitious we are very soon. Last season we bought players only because we had money from the sale of Coutinho

I know the PL is the one we want but I still think CL is the biggest. The police say 750,000 were on the streets on Sunday. No other club would get that level of support on a parade although I will admit not winning one of the big ones for a few years has something to do with that.

Moving on, we must try and win these competitions. They all count and we want to become serial winners. I would be disappointed if we didn't scoop all 3 trophies before Christmas.

I remember Scumchester missing the FA Cup for this. We should not have to miss anything but perhaps the PL will be kind to us regarding the fixture list in December as we go to Qatar to represent this country.

Prior to the decision this week there was going to be no tournament until 2021 and Real Madrid were to be reigning world champions until then. Now that is something we can go and win.

The club asking to be withdrawn from this really surprised me. It is an excellent opportunity to win a trophy, win more fans and strengthen the brand. If City were in this with their Arab owners they would be all over this.

As it stands the plan for 2021 is still to have a 24 team competition replacing the Confederations Cup. We have already qualified for that tournament. It would really serve us well to be seen to be friends of FIFA and UEFA unlike City who are certainly at odds with UEFA at the moment.

When it goes to the 24 club format I am sure it will be a really big prize to win given the stature of the clubs involved in it. Of course any ban City get could prevent them from getting into this competition as they would be limited to one chance to qualify for it.

i want to WIN the world club competition and the super cup

that will shut up other fans. would be great to be the 1st british team to win

Unfortunately them from Old Toilet won it...

I remember the last time we were in the final of this. Absolutely dominated the game. Think we had 3 goals disallowed and 1 stonewall penalty appeal turned down. Lost 1-0

We have a chance to put this right.

A chance to win a trophy we never have won before. Every chance to put another medal around our players' necks is a good one, I say. Keep our players happy and attract more quality players.

took the word right out of my mouth

Exactly. Winning breeds winners, all the successful teams down the years have been serial winners no matter the competition they were in. There should be no excuse about squad depth as we have a solid team and with key additions we should be fighting for every medal like you say.

Yeah I remember that game, bent as [oops] ref...played in Japan v Sao Paolo

Watched by a crowd of 66,821, São Paulo took the lead in the first half when Mineiro scored. Liverpool missed a number of chances to equalise in the first half. In the second half they had the majority of the possession and also had three goals disallowed. Despite all their chances they were unable to score against São Paulo who held on to win the match 1–0.

if im not mistakenwe would be the 1st british team to win it. That would be a great statement and will always be remembered.



i really want to add the WORLD CLUB CHAMPIONS to that great list. Why would anyone not want that?

Manure won it in 2008

hate those cuntz

You can already add one CL cup to your picture, it's showing 5...

Want us to win this as we haven't in our history, I also want the community shield and the super cup. they may not be major honours but they are trophies and could get us used to winning finals.