Liverpool coach Jürgen Klopp has once again criticized the tight schedule in professional football.

"It's crazy what we're doing there," said the 54-year-old in an interview with Sky Sport.

“We have neither a break nor proper preparation and no time to train during the season.

You have to think about that, something is wrong, ”said the 54-year-old Liverpool FC coach.

“In the long term it can only lead in one direction - and that is the wrong one. That is why that should be changed, "demanded the German start coach and praised the players:" That the boys still perform at such a high level is down to the boys. "The Premier League second Liverpool plays on Saturday at Watford FC, already on Tuesday the Reds continue in the Champions League at Atlético Madrid.

Klopp also criticized the Nations League in the interview: “We said at the time when the Nations League was introduced that it was a completely nonsensical competition. The reason for this was that there are too many meaningless games, there are so many friendlies. “Now the competition is there and there is no longer any possibility of taking a game out. "All associations have maneuvered in there," said Klopp. "The player has to pay for it, that's absolute madness." And: "This greed is carried out on the back of the player."

He compared professional football to US sport.

“A lot of money is spent on football, and even more on American sports.

They have a break every four months plus some preparation.

They also play boom, boom, boom, boom - but they have a break, ”said the former coach of Borussia Dortmund.

"This is going to be a superpower"

Klopp had recently also heavily criticized the plans of the world association FIFA to host the World Cup every two years.

"At some point someone has to understand that without the players, the main ingredient in this wonderful game, we can't play," he had said.

Klopp is more cautious in his stance on the controversial entry of a Saudi Arabian consortium into Liverpool's league rival Newcastle United - despite a noticeable lack of understanding. “We are now living with the facts. But there are no two opinions about the obvious human rights concerns in Saudi Arabia. That's not a question. There are concerns that everyone has, I am not alone with that and the rest was obviously decided by other people, ”said the success coach on the political dimension of the deal.

In terms of sport, Klopp expects Newcastle's breakthrough into the European elite: “It will be a superpower.

This is the third club in world football that I know of that belongs to a country and that obviously belongs to the wealthiest family on the planet.

The possibilities that open up are of course immense.

It's basically like the Super League now - just for one club.

Newcastle will definitely be able to play a dominant role in world football for the next 20 or 30 years ", believes Klopp - and cannot imagine permanent bad investments of the petro-millions by the magpies:" You can build a lot of crap with money, but in the long run too many will run good people in football and Newcastle will find them too. "