Sky Sports cut Jurgen Klopp’s furious interview short after he went into a rant towards TV companies over scheduling of matches.
The Liverpool manager was outspoken about the packed programming facing Premier League sides this season, with nearly every match picked for broadcast, and he was again in that frustrated mood after his side’s 3-0 win over Leicester City.
However as he went into another rant about it, Sky Sports did what the media did to Donald Trump and chose not to air it… not like Sky to cover up and hide criticism on themselves… after all we remember when they muted out the ‘Sky TV is fucking shit’ chants in previous seasons.
Jurgen Klopp on injuries and the broadcasting schedule.
This part of his interview wasn’t aired by Sky, probably because he was speaking absolute facts.
Well in, Jurgen! pic.twitter.com/lrW50IycIV
— Watch LFC (@Watch_LFC) November 22, 2020
A FULL TRANSCRIPT
“Why we change late is because we constantly have to think that someone will go down with an injury. We cannot change early, because if someone goes down and then you get a muscle injury, you end with nine players. That’s the truth and nothing else.
“It was never about us when I talked about it, it was about all the players. It was about the England players, all the players that play European Championships next summer.
“If you [Sky] don’t start talking to BT [Sport] we are all done.
“Sky and BT have to talk because if we keep playing on Wednesday and Saturday [at] 12:30, I’m not sure if we will finish the season with 11 players. All the top six and seven.
“I know you [the broadcasters] don’t care and that’s the problem.
“It’s not wrong. We’ve discussed it for a long time and nothing’s happened. Everybody tells me it’s difficult here, it’s difficult there. It’s really difficult for the players, that’s what is difficult. The rest is just a decision on a desk in an office, and that’s not difficult for me.
“I’m happy about the game tonight, but we lost another midfielder. That’s the situation. But it’s not about us, I can only say it one more time. Whoever calls me selfish, has to ask himself who is selfish, but it’s not about that.
“I want to discuss things calm, the only problem is, maybe it’s my language, is everyone says ‘he talks about Liverpool’.
“I don’t talk about Liverpool, I talk about all the football players out there. Yesterday, [Gerard] Pique, massive knee injury. Today, [Bukayo] Saka, maybe, I’m not sure, a knee injury – he played all three games for England during the international break, and today’s football.
“Now people tell us to rotate players but who? We have some offensive players but the rest are kids. That’s how it is. It’s all OK. We fight with all we have. But that’s how it is. But if you don’t start talking, you will see what happens.
“It’s a massive problem. Wednesday and Saturday 12:30 is a broadcaster problem and nothing else. People tell me if we want to change, then we need to schedule a meeting. For what? Then you give us money back?
“We two teams who play Champions League on Tuesday night. We have two teams who play Champions League on Wednesday night, then we have teams in the European League on Thursday night.
“So what you do, because you pick first and then BT picks us.
“We play against Atalanta on Wednesday and then 12:30 [Saturday] against Brighton.
“It’s an early Christmas present. We will show up there shaking. I think about sending the points. That’s how it is, because you go there, you can always lose a football game, that’s of course possible, that’s how it is.
“But it’s the problem. We cannot change 11 players. It’s just not possible. We can’t just show up, we have to win football games. That’s how it is. Gentlemen, start talking and start making decisions.
At this point it was put that contracts had been agreed between clubs and broadcasters.
“If someone tells me again about contracts I’ll go really nuts.
“Because these contracts aren’t made for a Covid season.
“We all have to adapt. You adapt, we adapt. Who’d have thought a year ago we have to go with a face mask like this. Everything’s changed, but the contracts with the broadcasters is still: ‘We have this, so we keep this’.
“What? Everything changed, the whole world changed! That’s it!”
Fans reacted as Sky Sports cut Jurgen Klopp’s furious interview short, see what they had to say…
I’d like to see the UCL revert to its previous format. Every team you play is a champion of their league. I never understood why it was called Champion’s League. How are you a champion if you came fourth? It’s part of UEFA’s greed juggernaut. The wrong people run football.
— James Peet (@pimpleboy71) November 23, 2020
Do you think your muscles, joints and ligaments care how much money you make? Injuries will keep piling up, for every team that plays in Europe.
— Skeptisk (@FBureaucracy11) November 22, 2020
You’re missing the point. In a normal season he’s fine about it (the scheduling) But in this condensed Covid season, he has a valid point, same as your manager did 2 weeks ago at Everton. But your United-tinted bile glasses can’t or won’t allow you to see that.
— Richard_LFC*Champions Of Everything*19-6 (@Richard86906120) November 23, 2020
The money paid from the TV deal is tied to number of games. No one is complaining about reducing the no games.
All Klopp is saying is tweak the schedule of games to be more accommodating of other competitions and allow more players for substitution.
That’s all.
— Kay Cee (@SarKelz) November 23, 2020
It doesn’t really comply with how they think the world should work, so they will simply edit it out and pretend as if he never really said it.
Tell me, does the head of Sky Sports also believe in Brexit?
Just the sort of ignorant tosser who would.
— Neil Burns (@Kloppfollower72) November 23, 2020
Thought his interview was a bit short. Bang on again.
Usual suspects will moan about Klopp having a go an as much as I love all the footy over Xmas, same people will have another go at him for bringing it up again but as he says, they all talk but nothing changes
— Andrew Brito-Coll (@abritty21) November 22, 2020
Maybe so but if you think about how they train now to how they trained then it makes his case
… The lads used to have pie n chips n a couple of pints.. Now everything they eat drink is monitored and what they do every day to train is more than teams 20 years ago— Wend_W (@1647Willo) November 23, 2020
i find myself agreeing more and more (which is worrying) when he said the other week that it was stupid that we (united)played a 12:30 game after getting home on thursday morning i thought he was spot on and he is again here.
— no tactics just vibes fc. ludg (@rashfordszn99) November 23, 2020
I am starting to feel @SkySports is counter productive to the growth and development of football – I really believe football will be better off with them and on streaming platforms
— Mike (@MikeyjnrTZ) November 23, 2020
He’s so good w words. Like genuinely clock he speaks better than any politician, mogul etc. So simple yet effective
— Terror (@merseysidemane) November 22, 2020
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