Jurgen Klopp absolutely right – Can’t say I have agreed with him much before but on this for sure | OneFootball

Jurgen Klopp has got this absolutely spot on.

I haven’t often agreed with him in the past, here though, he’s totally on the money.

Jurgen Klopp declaring; “the worst idea ever implemented in football”, when talking about the nonsense that is the FIFA Club World Cup.

A total waste of time that is all about Infantino and FIFA’s empire building, with participating clubs only interested in the massive amounts of money Infantino has arranged for them to be paid.

As Jurgen Klopp points out, it just isn’t viable for players to be constantly playing football.

Man City unsuccessfully tried to get the Premier League to push back their opening matches of the 2025/26 season so that their players could get some kind of proper length of time to recover.

As Jurgen Klopp indicates, it will be as next season progresses that we could well see the true impact of this FIFA Club World Cup where the players are concerned, with extra injury issues, fatigue and so on.

For football fans, so much else has been a joke with this ridiculous extra tournament that nobody cares about. Huge numbers of empty seats and low TV viewing figures spells it out, never mind the fact that so many matches are taking more than four hours to complete due to safety concerns regarding the weather.

Former Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp believes the Club World Cup is “the worst idea ever implemented in football” because of “serious fears” over player welfare.

The German is now Red Bull’s head of global soccer and one of their teams, Red Bull Salzburg, qualified for this summer’s tournament in the United States.

Klopp has often complained about players’ workload and fixture congestion, and days before the Club World Cup, global players’ union Fifpro released a report saying players should be allowed at least a four-week off-season break.

This year’s Club World Cup is the first to feature 32 teams and 48 games, and saw Salzburg knocked out in the group stage.

During an exclusive interview with German newspaper Welt am Sonntag, Klopp talked about the expanded format and player development.

“It’s all about the game and not the surrounding events – and that’s why the Club World Cup is the worst idea ever implemented in football in this regard,” he said.

“People who have never had or do not have anything to do with day-to-day business anymore are coming up with something.

“There is insane money for participating, but it’s also not for every club.

“Last year it was the Copa [America] and the European Championship, this year it’s the Club World Cup, and next year the World Cup. That means no real recovery for the players involved, neither physically nor mentally.”

Jurgen Klopp added: “I have serious fears, that players will suffer injuries they’ve never had before next season. If not next season, then it will happen at the World Cup or afterwards.

“We constantly expect the players to go into every game as if it were their last. We tell them that 70 or 75 times a year. But it can’t go on like this.