A positive tournament for Liverpool to really have a go at.
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00:00 Liverpool's Europa League aims?
00:24 Yes, obviously Liverpool's Europa League campaign kicks off next week, a trip to Austria. As you say, they've been handed a favourable group, not only with the teams they're facing but in terms of travel as well.
00:35 Austria, France and Belgium. You can go to the back ends of nowhere really, can't you, in the Europa League sometimes.
00:43 Liverpool could be going out to some of the clubs you see that you've never even heard of, like Moldova, etc. Liverpool have got free, easy trips, I think that enhances Liverpool as well.
00:55 Look, I think this is a good chance for Liverpool to utilise the whole squad in the Champions League, in the group stage. They wouldn't have done that if they'd have played the best team.
01:05 It's the Champions League, it's the best club competition in the world. You want to win it, it's difficult enough to get out of the group, never mind going far in it.
01:13 The money that comes with it, pay and win, in a group match and then obviously getting to the next round is absolutely significant.
01:21 The finances are different for Liverpool, they're going to be earning nowhere near as much in the Europa League.
01:26 I think if they actually go and win the Europa League, they wouldn't even earn as much as getting out of the group stage in the Champions League.
01:31 There's that much difference between it. So Liverpool obviously is playing less competition, they can utilise the squad better.
01:39 They're not exactly going to be playing bad players, are they? They're going to be playing maybe Joe Gomez and Joe Mata, centre-back.
01:46 Kostas Simakas, left-back. A chance for Ryan Gravenberk to get minutes, because this might be a bit of a transition season for them.
01:54 Harvey Elliott, another one. Stefan Persetic. Thiago might play quite a lot, he hasn't played yet this season with his injury.
02:00 Ben Tokun and the forwards will rotate themselves. So you look at that squad and the potential second XI.
02:08 Kovin Kelemen, goal as well, who a lot of people think he could be a number one elsewhere.
02:13 You look at a potential second XI and you think that it's got more than enough to go to the quarter-finals maybe of the competition.
02:22 Then from there you probably play your strongest team.
02:25 The only major trophy Klopp hasn't got his hands on at Liverpool.
02:30 Probably the one that you want to win the least, to be honest with you, because you want to be in the Champions League every season.
02:35 But he'll still feel a little bit of redemption from that first year, 2016, when they got beat in the final by Seville.
02:43 And a place, a win in the Europa League, guarantees you a spot in the Champions League as well.
02:50 We all know how competitive the top four race is going to be this season.
02:54 The final is in Dublin, so it's a very easy one for Liverpool fans to get to.
02:58 So there's another facet that goes with it.
03:01 Kicking off next week, we should see some of the fringe players play and look to get a chance and impress for the Premier League games.