Simon Jordan has sent a bizarre message to Jurgen Klopp after the Liverpool boss was critical of their hectic fixture schedule.
The Reds face an intense run-in as they remain in all four competitions heading into the latter stages of the season. Liverpool will face Villarreal in the semi-finals of the Champions League at the end of April, just days before they travel to face Newcastle United in the 12:30pm Saturday kick-off.
Klopp criticised the scheduling, saying decisions 'couldn't care less' about the impact it has.
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He told his press conference this week: “If we play a Champions League semi-final, find me another league in the world and another broadcaster who would put the one team in the semi-finals – it might be two or three English teams – on at 12.30. It’s like: ‘Throw them a little stick between the legs!’ What? What are you doing? Why would you do that? That’s why it’s so difficult, that’s why it never happens, because nobody cares."
Jordan, the former owner of Crystal Palace, doesn't agree with Klopp's comments and says it's 'everyone else's fault fixtures exist'.
“The difficulty for me is this is nothing Klopp hasn’t said before,” he told talkSPORT. “He says it every single time. It’s constantly everyone else’s fault that fixtures exist.
“Did Jurgen Klopp say, back in August when the fixtures came out, ‘Hold on a minute here, we’re on for a quadruple at the beginning of the season and we could have a [Champions League] semi-final there, and we could have an FA Cup semi-final, and we could have my aunt being my uncle.
“So what I want is to move that fixture from 12:30pm because, don’t forget, that all of you other 19 clubs in the Premier League, all of you clubs in Europe, and you clubs in Europe, your sole focus is to help us win a quadruple’?
“So, because Liverpool’s success has driven them to a position where their fixture list has ultimately put them in an invidious position where they are playing more games in a short space of time. It’s less than ideal but then, okay, don’t be so successful then. What is it you want?”
