Former Liverpool supervisor Jürgen Klopp has criticised the introduction of the expanded Membership World Cup format, calling it the worst concept ever applied in soccer.
In an interview with German newspaper Die Welt revealed late on Friday Klopp stated the event would put extra pressure on an already packed calendar for the gamers.
The expanded format contains a 32-team occasion held each 4 years in the course of the preseason, within the summers between main worldwide tournaments.
“It is a pointless competitors. Whoever wins it is going to be the worst winner of all time as a result of they’re going to have performed all summer season after which gone straight again into the league,” Klopp stated.
“There are individuals who have by no means been concerned within the day-to-day enterprise of soccer and are actually arising with concepts.”
Klopp identified that as we speak’s gamers are getting much less and fewer time to relaxation, warning that including one other event was doubtlessly harmful for his or her well being.
“It is too many video games. I worry that subsequent season we’ll see accidents like by no means earlier than. If not then, they’re going to come throughout or after the Membership World Cup,” the German stated.
“There is no actual restoration for these concerned, neither bodily nor mentally.”
Klopp, who ended his extremely profitable nine-year stint with Liverpool in 2024, is now head of worldwide soccer for Crimson Bull, house owners of a number of golf equipment together with RB Leipzig and New York Crimson Bulls.
Klopp was additionally requested if he want to coach once more.
“I do not need that anymore. I’ve a job now that fulfils me and can be intense. I do not sleep within the morning and I do not go to mattress later at evening, however I can organise my work significantly better,” he stated.