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While Liverpool's fans celebrated their status as supporters of the new Premier League champions outside Anfield last month, the gaze of some inside the squad itself had already been trained towards the Champions League.

It's fair to suggest the manner of Liverpool's penalty-shootout defeat at home to finalists Paris Saint-Germain has led to at least a number of players in the squad thinking about what might have been, had a better set of penalties been taken down the Anfield Road end on the night of March 11.

Having wrapped up a second Premier League title with four games to spare to facilitate a couple of end-of-season holidays before lifting the trophy itself ahead of one of the most famous parades in club history on May 26, lamenting the European fortunes might be a futile use of time for the Reds players, but reflecting on those sorts of setbacks is often what sets the elite apart.



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Mohamed Salah has already spoken this week to Gary Neville about how his overriding aim for next term is a seventh European Cup for the Reds and as Arne Slot previewed Monday's trip to Brighton & Hove Albion, it's clear the PSG exit still rankles with him also.

"Do I have any regrets this season?

As a general thing, I agree with him, and one of these things is if you win the league table, you're number one, in a season where you play from November to March here in England, it would be nice if you then have a team where you can win against, if you play on 70%.

"But we were in the wrong place in the wrong time, facing Paris Saint-Germain.

(laughs)."

Slot adds: "What I don't like about the [Champions League] format is that I think PSG will always be 15 or 16 [in the standings], because next year we've got six Premier League teams and we can't play each other.

So you know one thing, PSG always has to play two very difficult ones, maybe even more from England.

"So the teams that are not from England are always like: 'S***!' We are a bit more lucky if you want to call it like this, because I think Real Madrid, Barcelona, Paris Saint-Germain, Inter come close to the levels we have in the Champions League.

Because in the past you could go as the number two of Italy or the number two of Spain and you could go back to the Europa League or to the Conference League level.

"But now it's always the number four of Spain or the number five of Spain that has to play the number four or five or six of England.

And I think England has, money-wise, a big, big, big difference between the number five of Spain and the number five or six of England.

"You could, if you are unlucky, face Paris Saint-Germain again or Bayern Munich again.
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