For what will be the seventh time since 2014, Liverpool will meet Real Madrid in the Champions League in February. And, in a way, it seems Florentino Perez is getting exactly what he craves.
As one of the architects behind the Super League debacle last year, the Real Madrid president has remained steadfast in his insistence that European football needs such a concept to save it from a new-age of football fans, whose interest in anything outside of the continent's most glamorous fixtures is apparently dwindling.
“If we look at tennis legends, Rafa Nadal and Roger Federer have played for example 40 times in 15 years," said Perez at Real Madrid's annual general meeting last month. "Nadal and Djokovic have so far played 59 games in 16 years. Is this boring?
