Jurgen Klopp believes UEFA are "not the saints of football" as he continued his criticism of the high cost for Liverpool supporters to attend the Champions League final.
The Reds, along with fellow finalists Real Madrid, have been handed an allocation of only 20,000 for the game on May 28 in Paris at the Stade de France, which has has a capacity for 75,000 for the fixture.
Even allowing for an agreement with UEFA for a majority of prices to be subsidised, more than half of the travelling Anfield faithful wanting to attend will have to pay more than £125 for a seat, with the cost of travel and accommodation having skyrocketed on the back of the club reaching their 10th European Cup final.
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Liverpool supporters' union, the Spirit of Shankly, have written an open letter to UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin urging a rethink of the allocation and pricing structure of Champions League final tickets, with this the first such showpiece to be played in a full stadium since the Reds beat Tottenham Hotspur in Madrid's Wanda Metropolitano in 2019.
And while in agreement with the disgruntled fanbase, Klopp admits there is unlikely to be any change in the foreseeable future as he reiterated his opposition of changes to the competition set to be introduced in two years.
"I understand 100,000% where Spirit of Shankly is coming from," said the Reds boss. "It is absolutely not right but it happens everywhere. It doesn't make it better, just in this specific case you only get 50% of the tickets and the rest goes to people who pay thousands and thousands for the tickets. That's how all the money is made.
"The atmosphere, 20,000 Reds are responsible for that. Do I like it? No. Will I change it? To talk about is right but you have to write about it too because most of us think the same.
"UEFA is not the saints of football, they never were. What they have in the Champions League is a fantastic, fantastic product, which it is.
"If you would have asked me, we never had to change that. But they lost here a little bit of money and there a little bit of money."
Klopp added: "I have friends - they didn’t tell me - but they booked hotel rooms (in Paris) since they knew we were in the quarter-final and they got a call saying ‘Sorry we will give you your money back because the price has trebled since then’. Nobody cares. That’s the world we are living in. We can all say ‘these are the bad guys, these are the bad guys’. Opportunity makes bad guys.
"We will not change that now, here, with whatever we say. We will talk in a few months that we have a World Cup in Qatar
"Nobody speaks about that anymore, how that could have happened. Nobody who made that decision at that time is still in charge, the World Cup is still there. It’s about money."
