Jurgen Klopp has rubbished Gary Neville’s ludicrous claim that Liverpool could benefit massively from an early champions league exit and focus on chasing the premier league title.
Wednesday’s last 16
Neville has regularly opined that the Anfield club’s Premier League title prospects would be enhanced by bowing out of Europe’s elite club competition.
But Klopp has issued a withering rebuttal to the former Manchester United defender turned media pundit ahead of the Allianz Stadium showdown.
He said: “That’s the reason why they don’t have a job on the sideline – one of the reasons.
“It is so easy to sit in a studio and talk about things like that.
“You draw a season and say the best way to go through it is to go out of all the cup competitions early. You do that and the same people go for you like mad.
“Now it is closer to the end of the season and it is allowed to go out of the Champions League without even trying? That’s really mad.”