Gary Lineker has agreed with Jurgen Klopp by insisting FA Cup replays should be scrapped.
The Liverpool boss has received widespread criticism after he revealed that he would send an Under-23 side, led by Neil Critchley, for the Reds' FA Cup fourth-round replay with Shrewsbury at Anfield.
This comes because the replay date falls in the middle of Liverpool's first winter break and Klopp has also promised his senior players the week off, as a result.
Regardless, Klopp, alongside other Premier League manager such as Pep Guardiola and Brendan Rodgers, have lobbied for replays to be scrapped due to the increased hectic football calendar.
That has received backlash from fans and owners of lower-league clubs, who claim to rely on the gate receipts and TV money that comes with drawing a Premier League side away from home.
Klopp, though, believes that matches should go straight to a penalty shoot-out, which offers a lower-league side a better chance of progressing to the next round than an FA Cup replay does.
Speaking to the media at a press conference, he said: “Most times in my life I worked and played for lower league teams. Replays cannot be the answer. Shrewsbury could have won the penalty shoot-out and gone through.”
That's a sentiment that Lineker, who has also called for replays to be scrapped, agrees with.
The former England and Leicester City striker has proposed matches level after 90 minutes go to penalties, with the lower-league side receiving all the gate receipts and TV money in the third and fourth round.
Lineker wrote on Twitter: He’s (Klopp) right. Replays have always been daft. 90 minutes, penalties.
"In 3rd and 4th round, Lower league team gets to choose whether to play home or away and receive all the gate receipts/TV money regardless."
