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'The Champions League is the Super League': What Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp said about breakaway plans TWO YEARS ago as world of football turns against Big Six's scheme to join European rivals in money-spinning new format

Jurgen Klopp's disparaging comments from 2019 about the hugely controversial new European Super League have been revealed.

The plans for the breakaway competition, involving English football's Big Six teams, have been confirmed, with pundits and fans near-unanimously opposed to the project, widely seen as a power and money grab for the sides, including Liverpool.

And Reds boss Klopp was quoted two years ago questioning the need for such a competition when the Champions League existed, and whether people would be interested in watching the same big clubs play each other over and over.