League cup means very next to nothing these days imo.

......

There are plenty of managers out there who would love to win it no matter how low it ranks though.

comment by gratedbean (U4885)
posted 2 minutes ago
I’ve got a lot of time for the league club, you get some good aways and it’s a tidy earner for the lower league clubs.

Would prefer it to be at a neutral ground for the final though.
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Is Wembley not neutral?

Joking I know you meant semi finals

comment by montleeds (U18330)
posted 31 seconds ago
comment by Mael - NOT Wahl (U22417)
posted 6 minutes ago
I'd be happy if my team won the league cup and didn't win any other trophies in a season. It's a trophy, it's worth something.

The club world cup is just nothing really. Can anyone even name the past winners of the last 10 club world cups without looking it up?
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same with the last ten league cups.
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I'm sure I can manage that:

2020 - City
2019 - City
2018 - City
2017 - United
2016 - City
2015 - Chelsea
2014 - City
2013 - Swansea
2012 - Liverpool
2011 - Birmingham

I think that's right.

comment by Mael - NOT Wahl (U22417)
posted 39 seconds ago
comment by montleeds (U18330)
posted 31 seconds ago
comment by Mael - NOT Wahl (U22417)
posted 6 minutes ago
I'd be happy if my team won the league cup and didn't win any other trophies in a season. It's a trophy, it's worth something.

The club world cup is just nothing really. Can anyone even name the past winners of the last 10 club world cups without looking it up?
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same with the last ten league cups.
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I'm sure I can manage that:

2020 - City
2019 - City
2018 - City
2017 - United
2016 - City
2015 - Chelsea
2014 - City
2013 - Swansea
2012 - Liverpool
2011 - Birmingham

I think that's right.
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You do realise there’s zero way of knowing whether you just googled it or not

Well if I've got one wrong I obviously didn't google it did I?

So I take it they're all correct?

comment by Mael - NOT Wahl (U22417)
posted 6 seconds ago
Well if I've got one wrong I obviously didn't google it did I?

So I take it they're all correct?
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I have no idea

comment by Terminator1 (U1863)
posted 20 seconds ago
comment by Mael - NOT Wahl (U22417)
posted 39 seconds ago
comment by montleeds (U18330)
posted 31 seconds ago
comment by Mael - NOT Wahl (U22417)
posted 6 minutes ago
I'd be happy if my team won the league cup and didn't win any other trophies in a season. It's a trophy, it's worth something.

The club world cup is just nothing really. Can anyone even name the past winners of the last 10 club world cups without looking it up?
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same with the last ten league cups.
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I'm sure I can manage that:

2020 - City
2019 - City
2018 - City
2017 - United
2016 - City
2015 - Chelsea
2014 - City
2013 - Swansea
2012 - Liverpool
2011 - Birmingham

I think that's right.
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You do realise there’s zero way of knowing whether you just googled it or not
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Yes there is , he could check his search history

The OPs bizarre home page has remibded me that Liverpool literally played a bunch of children against Villa in the league cup so we could take a full squad to the CWC

comment by *Robbing Hoody - tell me I can't and I'll show you I can (U6374)
posted 14 minutes ago
comment by Imran The King Khan (U10026)
posted 3 minutes ago
Nobody really cares about the world club cup, though.

I remember our league cup wins far more fondly than our club world cup win. FIFA have been trying to make it a thing for years but nobody really cares.
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I really enjoyed it and the players looked made up. Worth more money than the league cup too.
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Footballers look made up when they win the charity shield as well. It makes money as FIFA are trying to make it a big thing. But it’s not.

comment by Terminator1 (U1863)

I’m not even sure why the two are being compared anyway.
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Proceeds to compare the two by inventing hypothetical and unlikely scenario.

And that's the whole point of the CWC, getting there is the hard part, winning it once you're there is much easier, and barely registers with anyone (except this season, when it appears to have taken on legendary status.

Hard to get into, easy to win, very much like the old European Cup.

comment by Geoff Tipps (U1449)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Terminator1 (U1863)
posted 20 seconds ago
comment by Mael - NOT Wahl (U22417)
posted 39 seconds ago
comment by montleeds (U18330)
posted 31 seconds ago
comment by Mael - NOT Wahl (U22417)
posted 6 minutes ago
I'd be happy if my team won the league cup and didn't win any other trophies in a season. It's a trophy, it's worth something.

The club world cup is just nothing really. Can anyone even name the past winners of the last 10 club world cups without looking it up?
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same with the last ten league cups.
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I'm sure I can manage that:

2020 - City
2019 - City
2018 - City
2017 - United
2016 - City
2015 - Chelsea
2014 - City
2013 - Swansea
2012 - Liverpool
2011 - Birmingham

I think that's right.
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You do realise there’s zero way of knowing whether you just googled it or not
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Yes there is , he could check his search history
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Who could?

Don't think the CWC is bigger than the LC.

But & it's a big but, any team can have a fortunate run in the LC and win it, hell in 2013 league two Bradford City reached the final.

To even play in the CWC you must first win one of the 2 major European trophies then beat the winner of the other one (European Super Cup, or European Charity Shield if you prefer).

The fact still remains you have to beat some of the best teams in Europe to even be in with a chance of 'qualifying' for the CWC. That gives it more prestige than the LC in my opinion.

What I do find funny is the majority of 'fans' belittling the CWC are fans of teams never to even win one of the European trophies and as such could never, ever hope be called World Champions.

Only 3 English teams have reached the final, United (2008), Chelsea (2012) & Liverpool (2019) with Chelsea being the only one not to win.

I know this comment will be seen as a big 'bite' by most but Liverpool are now Super Premier European Champions of the World until another team wins the CL then they will have to make do with only being Super Premier League Champions of the World.

With that in mind, 1 from me.

comment by Don Draper's dandruff (U20155)
posted 53 seconds ago
comment by Terminator1 (U1863)

I’m not even sure why the two are being compared anyway.
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Proceeds to compare the two by inventing hypothetical and unlikely scenario.

And that's the whole point of the CWC, getting there is the hard part, winning it once you're there is much easier, and barely registers with anyone (except this season, when it appears to have taken on legendary status.

Hard to get into, easy to win, very much like the old European Cup.
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I was highlighting how different the two were. Not sure why someone as superior as yourself couldn’t see that....

In what way are they unlikely anyway?

League cup is far more prestigious. Enroute to winning it, you would have had to beat man City, Liverpool, Chelsea etc, not Mexican teams named after a type of subway sauce.

Liverpool are now Super Premier European Champions of the World until another team wins the CL then they will have to make do with only being Super Premier League Champions of the World.
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So furrrking cringe

comment by Terminator1 (U1863)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Geoff Tipps (U1449)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Terminator1 (U1863)
posted 20 seconds ago
comment by Mael - NOT Wahl (U22417)
posted 39 seconds ago
comment by montleeds (U18330)
posted 31 seconds ago
comment by Mael - NOT Wahl (U22417)
posted 6 minutes ago
I'd be happy if my team won the league cup and didn't win any other trophies in a season. It's a trophy, it's worth something.

The club world cup is just nothing really. Can anyone even name the past winners of the last 10 club world cups without looking it up?
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same with the last ten league cups.
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I'm sure I can manage that:

2020 - City
2019 - City
2018 - City
2017 - United
2016 - City
2015 - Chelsea
2014 - City
2013 - Swansea
2012 - Liverpool
2011 - Birmingham

I think that's right.
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You do realise there’s zero way of knowing whether you just googled it or not
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Yes there is , he could check his search history
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Who could?
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He could

comment by Shaun M - Bye bye, to the football league! (U9955)

Mexican teams named after a type of subway sauce.
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which came first, the sauce or the team?

Much as Id like to take the opinion of some Man Utd fans online why do people think Liverpool so demonstrably binned the league cup so that they could take a full squad to the CWC?

Liverpool are an elite professional football club so them clearly disagreeing with some fans on here seems odd.

Man Utd fans are the most hypocrite fans. They change their opinions depending on what suits them. So, there is no point of having this debate. May be not so much noticeable here but can be widely seen in other forums. Started calling Liverpool LiVARpool and Penaltypool but had to stop when it was revealed they had most penalties and most VAR decsions. It was them who said Liverpool would be found out when VAR used. Changed their openion again when Liverpool had no competition. Could have killed Woodward and his family but quick to call Liverpool all sort of things.

comment by Dunne was under Unger and I was over Dunne (U6037)
posted 13 minutes ago
comment by Diafol Coch 77 (U2462)
posted 23 minutes ago
I do think that the only time the Club World Cup is legitimate is when the winning team won their domestic league AND the Champions League the season before. Only then can you say you're the best in your country, your continent and your planet.
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Hard to disagree. Which English team have done that?
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comment by פlǝuƃɥᴉs (U19365)
posted 47 seconds ago
Don't think the CWC is bigger than the LC.

But & it's a big but, any team can have a fortunate run in the LC and win it, hell in 2013 league two Bradford City reached the final.

To even play in the CWC you must first win one of the 2 major European trophies then beat the winner of the other one (European Super Cup, or European Charity Shield if you prefer).

The fact still remains you have to beat some of the best teams in Europe to even be in with a chance of 'qualifying' for the CWC. That gives it more prestige than the LC in my opinion.

What I do find funny is the majority of 'fans' belittling the CWC are fans of teams never to even win one of the European trophies and as such could never, ever hope be called World Champions.

Only 3 English teams have reached the final, United (2008), Chelsea (2012) & Liverpool (2019) with Chelsea being the only one not to win.

I know this comment will be seen as a big 'bite' by most but Liverpool are now Super Premier European Champions of the World until another team wins the CL then they will have to make do with only being Super Premier League Champions of the World.

With that in mind, 1from me.
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Assuming by the end of next month it will be the Super Premier League Community Shield Champions of the World after the pre-season curtain raiser takes on a sudden, and never seen before, high level of importance.

comment by EmgaEmga.....19x6 (U22404)
posted 6 seconds ago
Man Utd fans are the most hypocrite fans. They change their opinions depending on what suits them. So, there is no point of having this debate. May be not so much noticeable here but can be widely seen in other forums. Started calling Liverpool LiVARpool and Penaltypool but had to stop when it was revealed they had most penalties and most VAR decsions. It was them who said Liverpool would be found out when VAR used. Changed their openion again when Liverpool had no competition. Could have killed Woodward and his family but quick to call Liverpool all sort of things.
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there there, let it all out, all at once.

The world club championship is a joke of a competition. It is like an Emirates Cup, but with teams nobody has ever heard of.

Only nerds would take the competition seriously.

Neither title is prestigious in any way lol.

The League Cup should be scrapped and the CWC should be a 4-yearly summer bonanza with the 32 biggest teams in the world.

comment by EmgaEmga.....19x6 (U22404)
posted 58 seconds ago
Man Utd fans are the most hypocrite fans. They change their opinions depending on what suits them. So, there is no point of having this debate. May be not so much noticeable here but can be widely seen in other forums. Started calling Liverpool LiVARpool and Penaltypool but had to stop when it was revealed they had most penalties and most VAR decsions. It was them who said Liverpool would be found out when VAR used. Changed their openion again when Liverpool had no competition. Could have killed Woodward and his family but quick to call Liverpool all sort of things.
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Stop ranting and stay on topic