Club World Cup
How Liverpool want to provide a mental edge with the former manager at the forefront
Lee Richardson (first left) with Jurgen Klopp and the backroom staff after their 2019 Club World Cup win. -Credit: Photo by Andrew Powell/Liverpool FC via Getty Images Liverpool have been competing at the peak of their powers under the guise of Jurgen Klopp for more than five years. Although they have fallen marginally short, after … Read more
To win the Club World Cup, Man City just needs to beat a lineup more suited to Soccer Aid
Marcelo at 35, four-time Club World Cup winner with Real Madrid, will be in Man City’s path along with his fellow veterans on Friday – Lars Baron/FIFA via Getty Images The first Club World Cup final in the history of Manchester City, as Pep Guardiola likes to point out, and on Friday an unlikely opponent … Read more
Players are exhausted by a calendar that is damaging football
Bernardo Silva admitted that he and other footballers were already feeling fatigued by the increasingly intense fixture list – Shutterstock/Ali Haider Bernardo Silva has admitted that he and other leading players in European football are starting to feel exhausted by the punishing fixture list – to which FIFA has just added a new 32-team Summer … Read more
Man City winning the Club World Cup in Saudi Arabia would be the ultimate case of one-upmanship
Sheikh Mansour will certainly be watching the action in Jeddah with a keen eye – Reuters/Hamad Al Kaabi Pep Guardiola and his Manchester City side headed to Jeddah just hours after dropping a further two points in a faltering Premier League season that was interrupted by the small matter of an attempt to score for … Read more