Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has set out his stance on calls for the Premier League taking a break amid a rising number of Covid cases and postponements.
Jurgen Klopp said: “I’m not against stopping the league, I just don’t see the 100 per cent benefit of it. Stopping it means stopping now for one or two weeks, so five or six games. When do you want to play them? Or we just play on. It is really difficult because step by step players will get infected. We have games on Sunday and Wednesday, the FA Cup where if I am right or wrong the opponent [Shrewsbury Town] does not really have a testing regime or the vaccination rate is low, but we don’t get any information because it is just football. Can you play on? Yes. Can you use youth players and academy players? Yes. Can you play every three days? No. That’s the thing with reduced squads we cannot play on, we cannot play every three days. There are obviously some things we have to talk about.”
