Gerrard wants to be a World Champion

Stevie Gerrard is looking forward to our trip to Japan for the World Club Championship. After our pre-season tour of Japan was cancelled Gerrard is delighted we will now be able to play in front of our Japanese fans. He has stated we our going there to bring back the trophy and become the World Champions:

"Our job as players is to deliver results and we will be going to Japan with the intention of bringing the trophy home. "We have a great fan base in Japan and I'm sure they're looking forward to seeing us play. It's also an opportunity for us to get a winners medal and this competition gives us a unique opportunity to become World Champions. "There are two ways of looking at this tournament. The first is to see it as a negative and say that it comes at a bad time in the middle of the season. We can also look at it as a positive and say that if we come back as winners with the trophy then it can give us a boost for the rest of the season.

Gerrard believes the best way to prevent any possible tiredness, caused by the volume of games, is to carry on winning:

"People talk about fatigue and the fact that we'll be playing a lot of games but, trust me, fatigue is much worse when you are losing games. That's why we'll be going there determined to win."
"We have games to play before Japan though and hopefully we'll be going there having already qualified for the last sixteen of the Champions League. "We want to do that in our next game because we have home advantage against Real Betis. We don't want to have to go to Chelsea in our last game needing a result because, as everyone knows, that is very difficult."