JURGEN KLOPP looks away now, as UEFA’s proposed new Champions League schedule includes group stage fixtures until the end of JANUARY.
Europe’s governing body wants to expand the Champions League and Europa League in 2024, but keep the same Europa Conference League.
Steaming Liverpool boss Klopp said last month that the action-packed schedule was “not right”.
And if things weren’t hectic enough already, UEFA’s wacky new plans would see the Champions League and Europa League sides play two more games, according to ESPN.
Both competitions are also set to drop from 32 teams to 36.
So instead of European football entering its knockout phase after Christmas, two more rounds of Champions League and Europa League matches will be played until the very end of January.
But eight sets of games spread over 10 weeks are expected to wreak havoc on the domestic schedule.
The first round of matches offered in the Europa League clashes with the third round of the Carabao Cup.
Other European days in December and January will then clash with the Carabao Cup quarter-finals and semi-finals respectively.
The situation is getting worse as the final round of European fixtures are offered alongside a full Premier League midweek schedule at the end of January 2025.
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Match congestion could lead to FA Cup replays being scrapped from the third round in order to relocate Carabao Cup and Prem matches.
The Prem is the only one of the five major European leagues to have a secondary cup competition.
Or, as Liverpool did in 2019 when their Carabao Cup tie against Aston Villa clashed with a Club World Cup tie, Prem teams could opt to field academy teams.
A worst-case scenario, supposedly seen as the very last resort, is to reduce the Prem from 20 teams to 18.