Unhappy Jurgen Klopp has launched a fresh attack over fixture chaos after the FA’s “incredible” decision to schedule FA Cup fourth round replays during the winter break.
The Premier League have scheduled their first ever mid-season rest in February but there is potential for Liverpool having theirs interrupted by FA Cup fixtures.
Liverpool boss Klopp has already been left annoyed after the pile-up which saw the club’s Under-23s having to play the Carabao Cup quarter-final with Aston Villa with the first team in Doha for the Club World Cup.
Klopp told ESPN: “The problem that we have is the Premier League have decided we have a winter break and the FA decided the re-game [replay] if you have to play, if you draw in the fourth round, you play the re-game in that week.
"It's incredible. It's just in the winter break. Right? That's when they set the game.
"OK, how is that possible? Nobody speaks about these things. I really don't understand that. Look at that. They are the games, we can't do more games.
"The problem we have now is nobody speaks enough.
"We don't speak enough to each other so the Premier League, the Football League, the FA, UEFA, FIFA, everyone is planning their own things and nobody follows that so there is no common schedule for everybody.”
An FA spokesperson said: “The FA has worked hard to ensure the introduction of a winter break for Premier League clubs this season.
"Clubs will either be given a free weekend on Feb. 8 and 9 or Feb. 15 and 16.
"We will work with the Premier League and the clubs to ensure every team gets a winter break.”
