Your morning Liverpool headlines on Thursday, December 15.
UEFA handed 'total victory' in huge blow for European Super League and future plots
The teams who plotted for a European Super League have today been dealt a huge blow over that project and any potential future breakaway plans.
The European Super League Company, ESLC, effectively made up of Barcelona, Real Madrid and Juventus, had initiated legal proceedings through the Madrid courts over what they saw as a UEFA's monopoly on the European game - and whether it could amount to a potential breach of EU competition law.
But this morning Athanasios Rantos, Advocate General at the European Court of Justice, has released his 'Opinion' which comes down firmly in favour of the UEFA side.
It indicates UEFA and FIFA should have the right to block the creation of new competitions such as the doomed Super League - and also to issue punishments to sides that participate in breakaway projects.
While the Advocate General's take is non-binding, it is widely expected to guide the final outcome of the court case.
A press release from the European Court of Justice today confirmed: "The FIFA-UEFA rules under which any new competition is subject to prior approval are compatible with EU competition law.
To read more, click HERE.
Liverpool team meeting in Dubai has just confirmed Jurgen Klopp plan
Andy Robertson says Liverpool's top-four hopes rest on re-establishingconsistency in the second half of the Premier League campaign.
And the Reds left-back believes the club's near two-week stay at a training camp in Dubai will be invaluable when domestic action returns with a visit to Manchester City in the Carabao Cup on December 22.
In an exclusive chat with the ECHO at Liverpool's Dubai base, Robertson spoke at length about the problems that have blighted the first half of the season, the tactical details being worked on out in the Middle East and why everyone is raring to go on the other side of the World Cup next week.
Hi Andy, it's great to get a chance to speak to you today, thanks for your time. Here we are in Dubai, it's a bit of a training camp with a difference this one - how's it all going so far?
"It's obviously been different weather to what we're used to at this time of the year and all of our families back home are wrapping up with the snow and things like that. But this has been important for us, training in this heat, you get out of breath that wee bit quicker and it's been important for us."
To read the rest of Paul Gorst's exclusive, click HERE.
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