Jurgen Klopp has hit out at Sky Sports and BT Sport over TV scheduling.
The Liverpool manager railed against the UK’s leading football broadcasters after seeing his injury-hit side run out as 3-0 winners over Leicester City.
Sunday’s Anfield clash still came with fresh treatment woes for the Premier League champions as Naby Keita limped out with a hamstring problem.
In an unaired interview with Sky reporter Geoff Shreeves, Klopp issued a stinging criticism of TV companies for compounding an already congested fixture list.
“It’s a massive problem. Wednesday and Saturday 12:30 is a broadcaster problem and nothing else,” insisted the Liverpool manager.
“People tell me if we want to change that, we need a shareholder meeting. For what? And then you ask for us [at the meeting ] to give the money back?
“We have two teams who play Champions League on Tuesday night and two on Wednesday night. Then we have teams that play in the Europa League on Thursday night.
“So what you (Sky) do, because you pick first a team and then BT starts picking us.
“We play against Atalanta on Wednesday and then 12:30 [next Saturday] at Brighton. It’s an early Christmas present. We will show up there shaking.
“I think about sending the points [to Brighton]. That’s how it is, because you go there, you can always lose a football game, that’s of course possible.
“But it’s the problem. We cannot change 10, 11 positions. It’s just not possible because we can’t only show up, we have to win football games.
“We cannot only go there [and the opponent say] ‘Oh, you wear a red shirt. Nice. It’s enough’. Gentlemen, it’s exactly how it is and nothing else – start talking and start making decisions.”
He added: “If somebody tells me again about [broadcasting] contracts then I’ll go really nuts because the contracts are made not for a Covid season.
“We all have to adapt. You adapt, we adapt. You stand here with a face mask. We adapt to a situation.
“Would you have thought a year ago you would ever go somewhere with a face mask like this? That’s the situation so, everything’s changed.
“But the contracts with the broadcasters is still: ‘No, we have this so we keep this’. What!? Everything changed. The whole world changed.”