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Jurgen Klopp criticized Sky Sports and interviewer Geoff Shreeves about the match schedule after Liverpool suffered another injury.
Liverpool beat Leicester 3-0 at Anfield on Sunday in a forceful performance despite the absences of Virgil van Dijk, Joe Gomez, Jordan Henderson, Thiago, Mo Salah and others.
The Reds also lost Naby Keita early in the second half to what looked like a muscle injury as the influx of games continues to take its toll on players.
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Klopp on air the same old complaints after the game in an interview that Sky Sports did not broadcast in the UK, but which was broadcast globally.
“It is really difficult how we discuss the need for change. I can not believe that. The reason we change late is because we constantly have to think that someone is going to fall with an injury. he said. “We cannot change early, because we change early and the other one has an injury, and you finish the game with nine players.
“It was never about us when I talked about it. It’s about all the players, it’s about the England players, it’s about all the players who will play the European Championship next summer, yes [Sky] don’t start talking to BT, we’re done. Sky and BT have to talk.
“If we keep playing on Wednesday and Saturday at 12.30, I’m not sure if you will finish the season with 11 players. The first six are the same. All the first six and seven. But I know [broadcasters] I don’t care, and that’s the problem. “
Shreeves told him he was “wrong” in suggesting that Sky is to blame, Klopp immediately intervened.
“No, it’s not bad because we’ve already discussed it for a long time and nothing happens. Everybody tells me it’s difficult, ‘Ah, it’s difficult here, difficult there.’ But it is really difficult for the players. That is the difficult part. The rest is just a decision on a desk in an office. That doesn’t seem so difficult to me.
“But if we keep it that way and you want to see a show… I’m happy for tonight’s game, but we lost another midfielder. You saw at the bank that we don’t have much. That is the situation. But it’s not about us. I can only say it one more time
[Shreeves tries to interrupt] “Whoever calls me selfish has to wonder who is selfish. But that’s not really the point. I want to discuss this kind of thing in complete calm, the only problem is everyone, whatever he says, it may be my language, it’s like, ‘He talks about Liverpool.“I’m not talking about Liverpool. I’m talking about all the soccer players out there. Yesterday, [Gerard] Piqué, massive knee injury. Today maybe [Bukayo] Saka, I’m not sure, a knee injury: he played all three games for England during the international break.
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“People tell us we can rotate, who? We have offensive players, the rest are children. This is how it is. Everything is fine, we fight with everything we have, but yeah [broadcasters] don’t start talking, you’ll see what happens ”.
Shreeves replied: “I understand exactly what you are saying, and you don’t sound like you are talking only about Liverpool, really, you are talking about the well-being of the players and other players in the league as well.
The pair then talk for a bit, before Shreeves adds, “The only point I would like to make, Jurgen, though, is that it’s not just the stations.”
Bad idea.
“It’s a huge problem,” Klopp said, interrupting once more. “On Wednesdays and Saturdays at 12:30 it is a problem for the station and nothing more.”
“But the clubs agreed on those spaces,” Shreeves replied.
“People tell me, if you want to change that, then you need a shareholders’ meeting. For what? For what? And then you ask for money. For what?
“We have two teams that play the Champions League on Tuesday night and two that play the Champions League on Wednesday night. Then we have teams that play the Europa League on Thursday night. So what do you do, because you pick the team first, then BT starts picking us, we play on Wednesday night and we play the next game at 12.30.
“What are we doing now? We play Atalanta on Wednesday and then at 12:30 Brighton. It’s an early Christmas present. We’ll get there shaking. I think about sending them the points. That’s how it is.
“We cannot change 10, 11 positions, that is not possible. Not only can we show up, we have to win football matches.
“It is exactly how it is. Gentlemen, start talking and start making decisions. I know it’s not you … I like the relationship with you. “
Shreeves then snaps that olive branch in Klopp’s face.
However, it’s more complex, Jurgen. It’s not just the stations, it’s about a lot of people: the clubs that agree on the contracts … “
Klopp, who was in the middle of the interruption at the time, pauses for a second before launching an incisive counterattack.
“If someone tells me about the contracts again, I go really crazy, because the contracts are not made for a Covid season. We all have to adapt. You adapt, we adapt. You are here with a mask. We adapt to the situation. Would you have thought a year ago that you would ever go somewhere with a mask and you would have to stand there and we can’t be that close?
“Everything changed, but the contract with the broadcasters is still, ‘No, it says we have this, so we keep it.’ What?! Everything changed! the world world changed! That’s.”
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