Liverpool set for £22m Champions League boost as Manchester United gap closes

Liverpool are on course to earn millions more from next season's Champions League.

The Reds, still in the hunt for an unprecedented quadruple following their 2-2 draw at Manchester City on Sunday, are fighting on all possible fronts with just weeks of the season remaining, with a Premier League title, Champions League crown and FA Cup triumph all still in their sights having already bagged the League Cup last month.

Last year the focus for Jurgen Klopp's men after a troubled campaign was to make sure that they made the top four and delivered Champions League football, something that they managed after a superb run of form down the final stretch of the season saw them clinch third spot and a place in European football's most prestigious and lucrative knockout club competition. After the wretched festive period and January that they endured, where the loss of key players to injury impacted them significantly, to seal qualification was a huge boon for a football club that has its the success of its business model aided to a large degree by success on the pitch.

There is no concern around whether or not Liverpool will make next season's Champions League, that is already pretty much assured. The only thing that Reds fans will be concerned with is whether they enter the competition as champions of England and champions of Europe, there to defend the title. Whatever happens, Liverpool look set to earn more money through next year's competition by virtue of their excellent performances thus far in the 2021/22 competition.

Liverpool take a 3-1 aggregate lead back to Anfield for their quarter-final showdown with Benfica on Wednesday evening in what is their 10th Champions League encounter of the season, after goals from Ibrahima