Jude Bellingham is likely to form a midfield trio with Federico Valverde and Aurelien Tchouameni. This means captain Luka Modric has to settle for a place on the bench as he begins his farewell tour as he will leave the club after the tournament concludes.

After a bad season by their lofty standards, with a scrap to finish in the top four and no trophies won, Pep Guardiola and Man City are seeing the Club World Cup as the start of a new campaign and new era.

When the ball gets kicked off the center circle of Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium, the United States will go down in history as the first host of the most important soccer tournament created this century.

Monday night's match between Brazilian side Flamengo and Tunisia’s Espérance de Tunisie brought two vibrant fan bases together to make one heck of a noise.

Follow live text commentary, score updates and match stats from PSG vs Atlético Madrid in the FIFA Club World Cup

Allan Rodrigues de Souza, who was once labelled an ‘outstanding talent’ by Jurgen Klopp, is another player who things didn’t go quite right for in England, but is headed to the Club World Cup with Flamengo. He was bought by Liverpool in 2015 under Brendan Rogers for £500,000 from Internacional, and seemed to make a good impression on Klopp.

In a now-deleted social media post, United States Customs and Border Protection exclaimed its agents would be “suited and booted ready to provide security for the first round of games”,

Just weeks after winning the Champions League for the first time in its history, Paris Saint-Germain's eyes are now fixed on FIFA's shiny new Club World Cup.