Pep Guardiola found himself agreeing with Jürgen Klopp’s scathing review of the newly expanded Club World Cup. But the Manchester City manager conceded that he has no role in the organisation of competitions, shrugging, “It is what it is.”
Klopp, a long-term managerial adversary for Guardiola during his time at Borussia Dortmund and Liverpool, took a step back from the dugout to oversee Red Bull’s stable of clubs this year. From this withdrawn view, the German tactician has pulled no punches with his assessment of a competition he has written off as “pointless” and “the worst idea ever implemented in football.”
