The Champions League result could give Liverpool a massive boost that Jürgen Klopp wants

The final whistle had just sounded in Anfield when Jürgen Klopp went on the offensive again.

In his constant quest for change, the Liverpool manager urged Sky Sports and BT Sport to find a compromise that would best suit the footballers whose ratings are set to soar this season.

Klopp’s call for a revision of the five-substitute rule and the scheduling of TV games has become a central theme this season, but his final remark on Sunday night was deeper than ever.

“It was never about us when I talked about it, it was about all the players,” repeated Klopp Sky Sports after the 3-0 win over Leicester.

The Reds boss had just seen his team lose another player in Naby Keita and was in little mood to celebrate the result when his injury crisis somehow worsened.

“If you don’t start talking to BT [Sport] we are all done

“Sky and BT have to talk because if we continue playing on Wednesday and Saturday [at] 12:30, I’m not sure we will end the season with 11 players.

“I know [the broadcasters] I don’t care and that’s the problem. We talked about it for a long time and nothing happened. “

Klopp insists with great sincerity that the wellbeing of the players is his only thinking for this clearly defined point of view.

It cannot be argued that this particular attitude is new or a result of frustration at the loss of star players.

After all, this is a manager who once argued “If we treat them like horses, we get horses” over an injury to the unannounced Jordan Rossiter.

In 2015, Klopp said: “I didn’t want to start my first week at Melwood with a complaint, but it can’t be normal to play three games in five days, even in England.

“What can I say? These young players are our future.”

So Klopp’s interest in the wellbeing of the players is not a neat narrative designed as a smoke screen to seek an advantage in the minefield that represents the busy schedule.

No, the German’s ongoing protests are genuine when he says, “I’m not talking about Liverpool, I’m talking about all the football players out there.”

Klopp, like his Manchester United counterpart Ole Gunnar Solsjaker, has lamented the idea of ​​playing on a Wednesday evening and Saturday morning in the same week.

However, it’s a prospect he’ll face this week when he heads to Brighton for the 12.30pm opener after receiving Atalanta in the Champions League.

“It’s a massive problem,” says Klopp. “Wednesday and Saturday at 12.30pm is a broadcast problem and nothing else.”

But perhaps the planning and injury headaches that have since turned into a migraine for Klopp can be relieved after Wednesday night’s game with the Italians in Anfield.

Three points against a team that was so emphatically pushed aside in Bergamo earlier this month bring the Reds to 12 points in Champions League Group D.

This would mean two of the remaining nine games of 2020 would become essentially redundant for the Reds, which would give Klopp ample opportunity to rest and spin.

With the Premier League games against Wolves and Tottenham looming over the next few weeks, the opportunity to give his big guns a breather in the Champions League could be vital.

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After Wednesday’s game, Liverpool will host Ajax on December 1 before the group stage ends eight days later in Denmark against Midtjylland.

If Ajax fail to beat the Danes in Amsterdam, the Reds will have made it to the knockout round for the fourth time in a row if they should triumph against Gian Piero Gasperini’s men.

That could give Klopp’s injurious squad a much-needed break with 10 games left to play before the turn of the year.