45 ‘Put me in a room with TNT’

“I watch a lot of football all over the world, the Premier League is the best league in the world. So it’s not overrated. The players are over-worked. Easy as that. Easy as that.

“I had a discussion only the other day with colleagues from our favourite TV channel which I will definitely not watch again, TNT, and said it’s always a conversation they have, saying they pay you, they give money to football.

“It’s not like that. I really don’t see it like that. It’s exactly the other way round, football pays them.

“They broadcast it, they deliver, but it’s not that TNT is not doing extremely well, or Sky or whoever, is doing extremely well.

“They can pay all of you, it’s all fine. You have to become a part of football again, and not just the squeezer.

“That’s it, that’s a little advice from an old man on the way out. I will watch a lot of football, but not all because people can survive without match days from time to time, definitely.

Problem

“You always think when I speak about it, it’s because of our last situation. We lost against..., no, we didn’t lose against West Ham. But because of the last game. No, it’s a general problem.

“I would like to meet, I would like to once be part of that meeting where somebody says, ‘Liverpool 12.30’, and the whole room is bursting into laughter. ‘Again?!’

“But they are still happy and they like subscribers. You can take me off that list! But if you’re looking for a pundit, I speak English! I could do it!”

Klopp managed to put the Mo Salah story into second place with his rant against the broadcaster, but the German insists the bust-up with the Reds star is sorted.

“It is no problem, if we wouldn’t know each other for that long I don’t know how we would deal with it but we know each other for that long and respect each other,” said Klopp.

“We can deal with it outside of expectations, it is a non-story.”