Arne Slot has stated ending prime of the group doesn’t matter within the new Champions League format, which can generate no less than €55.945m (£47m) in prize cash for Liverpool this season.
Slot has taken the alternative Liverpool’s qualification for the final 16 has offered and omitted a number of regulars from the ultimate group sport at PSV Eindhoven. Virgil van Dijk, Mohamed Salah and Ryan Gravenberch, who’ve began all seven Champions League wins this season, are amongst these rested together with Alisson, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Ibrahima Konaté, Alexis Mac Allister, Dominik Szoboszlai and Luis Díaz. Trent Kone-Doherty, an 18-year-old ahead, midfielders Isaac Mabaya and Kieran Morrison, and the defender Amara Nallo are among the many 21-man travelling squad.
“It has taken me some time to perceive this new format,” stated the Liverpool head coach: “However I’m now 100% positive it doesn’t matter if you find yourself first or second as a result of we’re assured to play the staff that’s fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth or 18th, after which it’s right down to the draw. We are able to’t drop to 3rd. It has no influence on the league desk however we might be attempting to win.
“A smart man as soon as stated to me he’s by no means seen something good come from shedding a sport. 13 or 14 gamers have largely shared the taking part in time so it would even be good to get different gamers right into a sport rhythm as a result of we are going to want them. The squad is a selection for the long run. Usually we work solely on the sport forward however that is an exception. At present I’m engaged on PSV and Bournemouth [who Liverpool visit in the Premier League on Saturday].”
The one uncertainty for Liverpool within the ultimate spherical is whether or not they beat Barcelona to first or second place within the desk. A prime seeding place is already assured for a aspect that may set a brand new report for Liverpool within the Champions League period of eight successive wins.
The stakes are far increased for PSV. Mathematically, the staff that beat Slot’s Feyenoord to the Eredivsie title final season can end within the prime eight, the playoff locations or within the elimination zone. “The possibility that we don’t undergo remains to be there, so we are going to go for no less than one level,” stated their head coach, Peter Bosz.
House provides consolation. PSV have misplaced solely one in all their previous 55 video games on the Philips Stadion and that was on penalties to Feyenoord within the Dutch Tremendous Cup.
Liverpool’s flawless type within the Champions League will enthuse their accountants in addition to their head coach. Slot’s staff have received €55.945m in Uefa prize cash up to now. That sum will rise by €2.375m to €58.52m ought to Liverpool declare prime spot with a win in Eindhoven. The windfall consists of €18.62m for qualifying for the group stage, €2.1m per league victory, €2m for ending within the prime eight, no less than €9.625m for his or her league rating and €11m for reaching the final 16. Liverpool’s share of media rights gross sales, or the “worth pillar” as Uefa now calls it, may also enhance resulting from their league rating and herald one other multimillion pound fortune.
The tie does have an emotional pull for Cody Gakpo, who got here by the ranks at PSV earlier than becoming a member of Liverpool in December 2022. Gakpo was additionally given the choice to remain behind on Merseyside however stated: “The coach knew I needed to be a part of the staff taking part in right here so I stated I’ll go along with them.”
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