Jurgen Klopp, current Liverpool manager says he was shocked over the motion raised to have the 2019/20 Premier League season null and void due to the outbreak of coronavirus
Karren Brady, West Ham vice-chairman started the idea of the Season being declared null and void which would mean clearing off all of the season’s results, goals and points from the record. This is coming just 24 hours after the league was suspended in March.
Passing his verdict on reports about voiding the Season, Klopp in a chat at a remote talk for German football’s DFB Academy, via Goal.com said: “There was talk that people wanted to declare the season null and void. So you thought: ‘Huh? We have played 76 percent of the season and you just want to delete the thing?’.
“That would have been something that I personally would find unfair, to just say that it didn’t happen.
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“We are first in the home table, we are first in the away table. It is a season in which we should become champions.
“Dealing with the crisis is the most important thing. But that doesn’t mean that certain things are of no importance at all just because they are less important.
“I think there are worse things in life than not becoming champions. A lot of people around us have big problems. People die, it always happens, but at the moment because of a virus that we all didn’t know and for which nobody could be prepared.
“We cannot prepare for everything, but also have to react often. That’s the biggest part of my life, reacting to things that I didn’t expect.”
Herald NG had earlier reported that On Monday the Premier League clubs voted to approve stage 1 of Project Restart, with Liverpool resuming training from Wednesday in small groups.
Klopp believes that discussions for a resumption is natural, and believes Premier League training grounds will have safety.
Klopp added: “People say: ‘How can you think about football, in moments when people are dying out there?’ Nobody does that, but like every other branch of business, we have to prepare for the time afterwards, because it will come of course.
“When it comes to football, that means that we will start training at some point and to make sure everyone is safe, unique measures are taken.
“As they were made in Germany, they are now being taken in England.
“The training centres of the English professional clubs will be the safest. There are no places to be infected at all.”
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