Big money awaits Liverpool this week as Champions League rewards are broken down

<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRdZG1ecF0HfZ8NOaY_XZJUABUEKH8G0k_BIjZVURIKZZ0ylroXAjD8YtAzBC4X8ajuxX6XMcluUcU0ga4QDTBtQG67_SQnzKlaILebjum0BSl7CTOWPQS3BxRIXF72Ufh_dY_i5XZVoVO/s927/0_Brighton-Hove-Albion-v-Liverpool-Premier-League.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="927" data-original-width="615" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRdZG1ecF0HfZ8NOaY_XZJUABUEKH8G0k_BIjZVURIKZZ0ylroXAjD8YtAzBC4X8ajuxX6XMcluUcU0ga4QDTBtQG67_SQnzKlaILebjum0BSl7CTOWPQS3BxRIXF72Ufh_dY_i5XZVoVO/s320/0_Brighton-Hove-Albion-v-Liverpool-Premier-League.jpg" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /> </span><p></p><h2 style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #141414; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Liverpool can bank themselves £11million on Tuesday if they beat Ajax and reach the Champions League knockout stages.</span></h2><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #141414; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Despite a disappointing 2-0 defeat to Atalanta on Wednesday, the Reds remain on the brink of reaching the last 16 of the competition and require just a point at Anfield to get the job done with a game to spare.</span></p><div class="outbrain mid-article-widget outbrain-slot-container" data-config="{"injectionEnabled":true,"componentType":"outbrain","injectionConditions":[{"condition":"stopONAdvertorialContent"}],"slotType":"outbrain","referenceNode":".article-body > p:nth-of-type(2)","widgetOptions":{"ids":["AR_2"],"template":"DailyStar"},"hideOnSensitiveArticle":true,"relativePos":"after","additionalClass":"mid-article-widget","name":"outbrainMidArticleSlot","placement":"Mid-Article","type":"outbrainMidArticleSlot"}" data-outbrain-placeholder="" data-response-start="4394.334999960847" data-type="outbrain" id="outbrainMidArticleSlot" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #141414; margin: 0px 0px 23px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-browser="chrome" data-dynload="" data-idx="0" data-ob-mark="true" data-ob-template="DailyStar" data-os="win32" data-src="https://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/liverpool-champions-league-money-ajax-23084934" data-widget-id="AR_2" id="outbrain_widget_0" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="ob-widget ob-one-column-layout CR_6" data-dynamic-truncate="true" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div></div></div><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #141414; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Each club participating in the group stages received £13.5m and for each win achieved they pick up another £2.4m while a draw brings in £812,000.</span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #141414; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">By qualifying for the knockout stages Liverpool will earn £8.6m and payment will continue to increase with quarter-finalists winning £9.5m, semi-finalists taking home £10.8m and £13.5m for reaching the final at the Ataturk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul, Turkey.</span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #141414; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Meanwhile, Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has once again voiced his unhappiness with the decision to scrap the five substitutes rule, insisting he only wants to protect players from injury.</span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #141414; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"Look, if it would be about me then I would have never mentioned it, but it’s about the players and each moment when it would happen, it would be good for the players," he said after Liverpool's 1-1 draw with Brighton.</span></p><figure class="in-article-image" data-init="true" data-mod="image" data-observed="false" itemprop="image" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" style="background: rgb(241, 241, 241); border: 0px; color: #141414; margin: 0px 0px 18px; min-height: 1px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 800px;"><div class="outer" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="mod-image" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img alt="Jurgen Klopp has once again questioned the intense pile-up of fixtures for Liverpool" content="https://i2-prod.dailystar.co.uk/incoming/article23078540.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/0_GettyImages-1287893971.jpg" height="282" src="https://i2-prod.dailystar.co.uk/incoming/article23078540.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/0_GettyImages-1287893971.jpg" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 800px;" width="350" /></span></div></div><figcaption class="publication-theme-indicator" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; clear: both; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: -0.07px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-indent: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="caption" itemprop="description" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #2c2c2c; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jurgen Klopp has once again questioned the intense pile-up of fixtures for Liverpool</span> <span class="credit" itemprop="author" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(Image: Getty Images)</span></span></figcaption></figure><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #141414; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"Brighton lost two players with muscle injuries and they play one game a week. The most difficult time is coming up now. For Sheffield United as well, by the way. We will see.</span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #141414; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"I can explain it one last time: in this period we are now in, five subs is not for tactical changes. And if ever one coach has the luck to use it for tactical changes, that would be the exception. Today we made an early sub at half-time, then we made a second sub and then we thought really if we are brave and [will] make the third sub.</span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #141414; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"If you are not brave, you have to wait with the third sub until the 90th minute pretty much because until then when they show up five more minutes, for example, you can say, ‘OK, if we change now then probably nothing will happen, or we are only three or four minutes with 10 men.’</span></p>

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