Virgil van Dijk believes Liverpool's status as Champions League finalists is just the start for a "special" group of players at Anfield.
The Reds will meet Premier League rivals Tottenham in Madrid on June 1 in the first all-England clash in the final of Europe's premier competition for 11 years.
For Van Dijk, it will be his second successive appearance in the biggest fixture in club football , having played for a Reds team that were beaten 3-1 by Real Madrid in Kiev 12 months ago.
Liverpool's ongoing pursuit for the biggest prizes in the game is justification for the £75million switch from Southampton in January 2018 for Van Dijk, who capped off a fine season domestically with a PFA Players' Player of the Year award last month.
And the Dutch captain feels the clash with Spurs at the Wanda Metropolitano is merely the beginning for a squad he believes is good enough to regularly challenge at the top end of the game.
"I think that's the most important thing anyway - to tell each other," he said. "When there are things that need to be said, I think this group of players is special, at least that's what I'm feeling.
"Hopefully we can stay together for at least another four or five years and achieve so many things with this group."
The world's most expensive defender also hailed the club for a string of transfer market successes that have enabled the Reds to sustain a serious push for silverware.
Since the summer of 2017, Liverpool have added a host of players to their ranks who have contributed significantly, including Mohamed Salah, Van Dijk, Xherdan Shaqiri, Naby Keita, Fabinho and Alisson Becker, while Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain was a big part of last year's push to the European showpiece in Kiev.
He added: "The characters we have in our team, it all fits, it all goes well so far.
"Any additions that we are going to get in the future, I think the club knows how to do that as well and it all clicks.
"It's my club definitely and I'm very proud to be wearing this shirt every day.
"But it's also one of the reasons when I came here - how everyone lives around Liverpool , lives and dies for the club, want to do everything for us, will be there in tough times. They will also be with us in the good times.
"I think this is a real football club and you don't have too many at this level that are living and breathing for a club like Liverpool.
"It was a very important decision [for me] to make, but so far it has gone pretty well."
Van Dijk became the first defender since John Terry in 2005 to scoop the Players' Player of the Year award in April.
