For Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp, the big Premier League teams may soon be unable to field 11 able-bodied players unless structural changes are made to protect the well-being of exhausted teams. frenzied sequence of matches. “If we keep playing Wednesday night and Saturday at 12:30 p.m. I’m not sure we (the seven English teams competing in C1 or C3) will end the season with 11 players,” Klopp said on Sunday in an interview with Sky Sports, the main TV rights holder to Premier League matches. Already facing a series of injuries, the Reds will play Atalanta Bergamo in C1 Wednesday night before moving Saturday at 13:30 French (12:30 GMT) to Brighton in the league, three matches in six and a half days since that of Leicester on Sunday evening ( 3-0). “Everyone tells me it’s difficult, but it’s (above all) difficult for the players. This is the real difficulty. For the rest, it is just a decision taken in an office ”, attacked Klopp, targeting in particular the broadcasters of the English championship, who plead for the maintenance of the identical calendar of the competitions, under the signed contracts. . “If people still talk to me about contracts, I’ll go crazy because they were not designed for a season with the Covid,” hammered the German. We all have to adapt. “
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