Klopp: Expanded Club World Cup the worst idea

Former Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp has criticised the instauration of the expanded Club World Cup format, calling it the worst thought ever implemented successful football.

In an interrogation with German paper Die Welt published precocious connected Friday Klopp said the tourney would enactment much strain connected an already packed calendar for the players.

The expanded format features a 32-team lawsuit held each 4 years during the preseason, successful the summers betwixt large planetary tournaments.

"It's a pointless competition. Whoever wins it volition beryllium the worst victor of each clip due to the fact that they'll person played each summertime and past gone consecutive backmost into the league," Klopp said.

"There are radical who person ne'er been progressive successful the day-to-day concern of shot and are present coming up with ideas."

Klopp pointed retired that today's players are getting little and little clip to rest, informing that adding different tourney was perchance unsafe for their health.

"It's excessively galore games. I fearfulness that adjacent play we volition spot injuries similar ne'er before. If not then, they'll travel during oregon aft the Club World Cup," the German said.

"There's nary existent betterment for those involved, neither physically nor mentally."

Klopp, who ended his highly palmy nine-year stint with Liverpool successful 2024, is present caput of planetary shot for Red Bull, owners of respective clubs including RB Leipzig and New York Red Bulls.

Klopp was besides asked if helium would similar to manager again.

"I don't privation that anymore. I person a occupation present that fulfils maine and is besides intense. I don't slumber successful the greeting and I don't spell to furniture aboriginal astatine night, but I tin organise my enactment overmuch better," helium said.