The winners of the Club World Cup will be “worse of all time,” explains Jürgen Klopp | Jürgen Klopp

The former manager of Liverpool, Jürgen Klopp, criticized the introduction of the extended format of the Club World Cup. In an interview with the German newspaper Die Welt, Klopp said that the tournament would put more pressure on an already packaged calendar for players. The enlarged format includes an event of 32 teams organized every four years in the summers between the main international tournaments.

“It’s a unnecessary competition,” he said. “The one who wins it will be the worst winner of all time because they will have played all summer and then returned directly to the League. There are people who have never been involved in daily football affairs and now offer ideas.”

Klopp stressed that today’s players have less and less time to rest, warning that adding another tournament was potentially dangerous for their health. “It’s too many games. I fear that next season, we will see injuries like never before,” he said. “If this is not the case, they will come during or after the club World Cup. There is no real recovery for people involved, neither physically nor mentally.”

Klopp, which ended his very successful nine -year -old passage with Liverpool in 2024, is now at the head of world football for Red Bull, the owners of several clubs including RB Leipzig and New York Red Bulls. Thursday, Red Bull Salzburg in the group’s World Cup group phase.

Klopp also asked if he wanted to train again. “I don’t want that anymore. I have a job now that fills me and is also intense. I don’t sleep in the morning and I don’t go to bed later, but I can organize my work much better,” he said.