Jurgen Klopp admits Liverpool haven't yet decided how they will cope with playing two games in 24 hours in two different continents next month.
The Reds must play their Carabao Cup quarter-final at Aston Villa on Tuesday, December 17 – the day before they play their semi-final in the FIFA Club World Cup in Qatar.
Liverpool accepted the date after it emerged there were no other realistic alternatives to alleviate their fixture congestion, with the Premier League visit to West Ham United yet to be rearranged.
And asked about how Liverpool will manage the situation, Klopp said: “We asked Aston Villa if they would come to Qatar and we could play the game there!
“No, we don't know exactly yet, we have an idea how we do it but it's too early to speak about that.
“We had to make a decision, and we've made a decision now because all the other alternatives were more problems than solutions and didn't work out.
“We said, that's how we can do it as good as is possible for us.
“All the rest, we have a bit of time to think about that. We have more important things to do, we had a game to concentrate on today and the next game to concentrate on.
“But in these next couple of weeks we will make a decision how it will exactly look. But in the end we will play a Liverpool team, 100%.”
Klopp had said after last week's Carabao Cup fourth round win over Arsenal that Liverpool could withdraw from the competition if a suitable date for the Villa tie was not found.
And the Reds boss, speaking after his team's 2-1 Champions League win at home to Genk on Tuesday night, was asked if the club were put under pressure by either FIFA or the Football League to play in the competition.
“Did they say we must do it? Kind of... Do you want to be really in trouble with FIFA? I'm not sure. Do you want to really be in trouble with EFL? Probably not,” said Klopp.
“We respect the competitions. It sounds like we don't want to play in the Carabao Cup, but that's not true. What I don't like about the Carabao Cup is two legs in the semi-final
" I don't understand that. It's in a busy period, I don't like it. All the rest is a nice competition. We don't play the FA Cup in the first part of the season, that's all okay.
“The Club World Cup you play in only if you win the Champions League. That doesn't happen in your life five million times, and that means we take the opportunity.
“Is it the best time of the year? No. It's pretty busy. But we're going there. We try to play all the games we have with all what we have.
“Now there is the situation where nobody had an idea. You should really think about things like this before you start, because this isn't the only problem here for the Carabao Cup.
“If you have a replay in the FA Cup – which I don't like, honestly – and you go through in the Carbao Cup to the final, we had that three or four years ago when we were at West Ham in the FA Cup, and people were hoping we didn't go through.
“You can't work like that, that you hope somebody goes out (of a competition) so everything is fine.
“Maybe it's a reason why the teams are going out because nobody knows how it works.
“We tried to ignore that this time against Arsenal, the boys just wanted to play football and that's why we qualified for the next round.
“But before the game it was clear it would be really difficult.”
Klopp added: “I don't want to cancel competitions. I'm from Germany, why would I want to cancel English competitions? But it should still be possible to talk about the problems, and that's what I did.
“Some people don't like that, but I can't change that. The problems are obvious. Every year we do the same thing again and some people find it funny 'look at that, they have to play five games in three days and let's see how that works out'.
“We cannot carry on like this. Come on. That's why I ask for us to sit at the table and find a solution, because these solutions so far sound to me like another problem. That's not a solution.”