Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has said that he is not happy that his side are having to play Premier League matches at 12:30pm on a Saturday again.
Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool will take on Wolverhampton Wanderers away from home in the Premier League on Saturday afternoon.
The match is scheduled to kick off at 12:30pm UK time.
Many of the Liverpool players were on international duty this week.
And the £300,000-a-week (PlanetFootball) Klopp is not happy at all that Liverpool are having to play so early on a Saturday.
Jurgen Klopp on Liverpool’s kickoff times
The Daily Star quotes Klopp as saying during Friday’s press conference: “It’s not a problem in a normal week, we always said that that’s easy to adapt, the only problem is the lack of recovery time.
“So we have four international breaks until March, two of them we have already at 12:30pm kick-off.”
The Liverpool boss added: “This is a joke! We have players in South America, I haven’t seen them yet and in 24 hours we play.
Jurgen Klopp
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“But it is like it is, we can’t change it and will never change that, whoever I talk to.
“Obviously the TV channel has a different name (TNT Sport) but that doesn’t change obviously anything at all. They just don’t give a … about that.
“We didn’t think about (12:30pm kick-off), in a moment someone like you gives me this feeling that is sitting there, ‘what’s exactly the problem? 12:30pm because it’s lunchtime or would it be the lack of time between the games and intensity of the travel?’
“Make your own opinion about it. Maybe this time without a source.”
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp should just get on with it
In our view, Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp should just accept the situation and get on with it.
It is as simple as that.
Just stop making a big deal out of it.
What’s the point?
It’s not going to change.
And perhaps it should not.
Of course, it would be better for Liverpool to play at 3pm on a Saturday instead of at 12:30pm.
However, TV companies pay a lot of money to clubs to televise their fixtures.
And Liverpool are a big draw.
If Liverpool want to make big money from television deals, then they have to accept the decision they make with kickoff times.
