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Jurgen Klopp furious about Super League protests before Liverpool's game at Leeds
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp says he does not back his club’s Super League plans, but accused critics of the proposals of inciting Leeds United fans to abuse him and his players before Monday’s 1-1 draw.
The Liverpool squad was met by protesting Leeds supporters at the stadium and during a pre-match walk in the city centre.
It one of many responses directed at Liverpool following Sunday's breakaway announcement. Leeds players warmed up with t-shirts branded with the slogan ‘Earn it on the pitch. Football for the fans’.
A banner with the same words was placed behind one of the goals, and the same t-shirts were left in the Liverpool dressing room, inviting the visitors to join the movement against the Super League proposals. Leeds fans gathered at the players’ entrance to jeer Liverpool’s arrival, while playing the Abba song ‘Money, Money Money’.
Klopp argued tensions have been inflamed, accusing Sky pundit Gary Neville of whipping up emotion. "When we came here, people were shouting at us," he said. "In the city people were shouting at us. I feel responsible for a lot of things but we are not involved in this. We have to be a little bit careful.
"Gary Neville was talking about You'll Never Walk Alone. This already should be forbidden. It's our anthem. We have the right to sing our anthem. He doesn't understand it anyway so I don't want this because it's not fair.
"I wish Gary Neville would be in a hot-seat somewhere and not where the most money is. He was at Manchester United where the most money is and now he's at Sky where the most money is.
"Don't forget that we have nothing to do with this. We got the information yesterday and we still have to play football. 'Damn them to hell' was one headline. These things are really not OK."
In his appeal for calm, Klopp reiterated the point he made in 2019 that he does not support a European Super League.
But despite the silence from his club's owners on the subject, he maintained he did not feel he had been hung out to dry as the first Anfield representative to speak on the issue.
"I don’t think that or feel that," said Klopp. "I am 20 years in football. A lot of owners make decisions without asking me. I am a football person. It is not about letting me down.
"I heard I would resign if times get tougher, that makes it more like I stay here. I feel responsible for the team and the club and the relationship with the fans. I will try to help sort it somehow.”
Klopp appealed to Liverpool fans to restore Kop banners after they chose to remove them in protest to their owners.
"I understand they (the fans) are angry," said Klopp. "The banners are there for the team. I would leave them there. Over six years we created a great relationship between team and supporters."
Asked directly if he thought the Super League is a good idea, Klopp said: "I said it in 2019. No. I don’t think it’s a great idea. The Champions League - as a manager the aim was always to coach a team there. I obviously have no issues with the Champions League.
"I like the competitive fact of football as well. I like the fact that West Ham might play Champions League next year. I don't want them to, to be honest, because we want that, but I like that they have the chance.
"I am six years in the club. I know the owners and they are good people and they care. We are not involved in the process. Nobody knows what will happen. I don’t know anything about that.
"The team has nothing to do with it and the players have nothing to do with it. This club is bigger than all of us. This club was built in difficult times and went through difficult times. I coach a football team. If people want to criticise me, completely fine. But other things, it is not OK."
Klopp also took issue with Leeds’ pre-match stunt inviting Liverpool players to wear t-shirts to protest against their own board.
"If somebody thinks they have to remind us that you have to earn it to go to the Champions League then it's a joke," he said. "It's a real joke and it makes me angry. If they put it in our dressing room and it was a Leeds idea? Thank you very much. Nobody needs to remind us. Maybe they should remind themselves."
