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It was the last thing on the minds of those associated with Liverpool when Paris Saint-Germain substitute Desire Doue notched the decisive penalty beyond Alisson Becker in front of the Anfield Road Stand to send the Reds tumbling out of the Champions League earlier this month.

But it didn't take long for the potential cost of failure in Europe to become apparent.

On Wednesday it emerged the controversial FIFA Club World Cup, which has been revamped for this summer to feature 32 teams in an international-style summer tournament, will prove one of most lucrative club competitions ever over a short format.

Not that Liverpool would have been able to qualify for the forthcoming tournament.

But with lifting the Champions League almost certainly assuring qualification, the Reds have spurned the first of four potential routes to the next

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Chelsea and Manchester City, who have taken up two of the 12 European qualification places by virtue of winning the Champions League in 2021 and 2023 respectively, will earn £29.6m alone just for competing

And with both expected to go far in the tournament, they could go close to claiming the £97m prize money they could achieve from winning all their group and knockout games.

For comparison, Liverpool earned £171m for finishing third in the Premier League last season, a figure they are expected to surpass this time around given their 12-point lead at the summit with nine games remaining.

The Reds last won the Champions League in 2019 and that would have been sufficient to feature in the first planned running of the new-look Club World Cup in China in 2021 that was abandoned due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.

Of course, English clubs won't always win the Champions League with such regularity

But with both Chelsea and City already heavily backed by their owners, Liverpool can ill afford for the spending power of two direct rivals to be bolstered in such a manner.

That, though, will be offset to some degree by the lack of rest from players at both City and Chelsea going into the next campaign, with the competition only concluding on July 13.

City boss Pep Guardiola has already expressed his concerns over the event while Real Madrid counterpart Carlo Ancelotti was of a similar mindset last year and intimated the European Super League advocated would reject an invitation until he swiftly backtracked, claiming a misinterpretation of his comments.

Liverpool will now have three more attempts at qualifying for the next edition of the Club World Cup in 2029, and require only seven more points to secure a place in the Champions League next season.

But the Reds, along with the likes of Arsenal and Manchester United, will be keeping a keen eye on the impact on both Chelsea and City beyond the obvious financial dividends
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