Jurgen Klopp let rip at TNT Sports in a fiery rant about Premier League clubs being 'overworked'.

The Liverpool boss has been a long-term critic of fixture scheduling, particularly the 12.30 kick-off on Saturday.

And as he prepares to leave the club at the end of the season, Klopp unloaded his thoughts about the congested English football schedule.

Speaking at a press conference on Friday, he said: "I had a discussion only the other day with colleagues from my favourite TV channel that I definitely will not watch again, TNT, and the conversation I have is always, 'They pay you, they give money to football'. It is not like that, I see it the other way around: football pays them.

"It is not like TNT or Sky are not doing extremely well. They have to become a partner of football again and not a squeezer.

"Years ago we had four English teams in [European] quarter-finals and then we take that and say, 'It's the quality of the Premier League' and let's make more of it but you have to change that approach.

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"You always think when I speak about it it is because of our last situation, the last game (a 1230 kick-off at West Ham) but it is a general problem.

"They dare to give us Thursday-Sunday-Wednesday-Saturday 12.30 - it's a crime! I was waiting for Amnesty International to go to them.

"I would like to be part of that meeting when someone says ‘Liverpool 12:30’ and the whole room is bursting into laughter."

Klopp believes the organisers of English football and the broadcasters must take responsibility for the nation's lack of success on the European stage this season.

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