Gremio president Romildo Bolzan Junior has compared Liverpool to Real Madrid ahead of the Club World Cup.
The Brazilian club president shared how he believed the Reds can be beaten by any club in the competition, despite the Champions League winners also being the favourites for the title.
Speaking on FOX Sports, Bolzan Junior admitted that he believes Real Madrid are a much more positive side and that Liverpool will present a different test.
“Of that, I am absolutely sure. I think Liverpool is a club that can be beaten by Flamengo, Grêmio, River, Boca,” he said.
“I think that Real Madrid team was much more consistent. It was much more, let’s say with the term they use is, galactic. It was a brighter team.”
Winners of the Champions League competition in seven different footballing federations compete every year for the Club World Cup, with Madrid having won the silverware four times in the previous five seasons.
OPINION
With the competition not taking place until December, Bolzan Junior will be looking for any early advantage available to his side. Gremio lost the final against Real Madrid in 2017 to a single goal, and will be hoping for more luck this time around should they make it. But, in all honesty, no matter who wins the European Champions League, they will always be the favourite – with Liverpool surely the best team in the competition. To say that Madrid are better than the Reds at this current moment doesn’t particularly make sense. If the Spaniards were the better side then they would have made it much further in the Champions League, but they struggled throughout. The last time a non-European side won the competition was in 2012, so the odds are highly stacked against any Brazilian side. It all depends on how hungry Jurgen Klopp is for silverware, when in the middle of a busy Premier League campaign. The German will definitely have the bit between his teeth after two trophies in the past year, and teams should beware the threat of the Reds come December.
