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“Smashed it,” chuckled Jurgen Klopp as he walked out of Friday’s eventful press conference at Kirkby.

Talk about demob happy.

There was a last-day-of-school feeling as the outgoing Liverpool manager didn’t hold back over the course of a memorable 20 minutes.

It wasn’t a rant and he didn’t lose his cool, but there was plenty he wanted to get off his chest or, as he put it, give “a little advice from an old man on the way out”.

Klopp argued that excessive demands on players was the reason English clubs have fallen short in Europe this season: “The Premier League is the best league in the world.

It is not over-rated, the players are over-worked.”

He described his side’s recent schedule of four away games in 10 days as “a crime… absolutely insane… I was waiting for Amnesty International to go to them!”

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Rounding on broadcaster TNT Sports, which has given Liverpool the 12:30pm Saturday slot six times this season, he said he wouldn’t watch the channel again and asked its executives to remove him from their list of subscribers: “You have to become a partner of football again, and not just the squeezer.

He wasn’t making excuses for Liverpool’s Premier League title challenge unravelling.

It was tough watching a man who has taken Liverpool to such heights talk about how he felt he had “failed” by not getting the best out of players at the business end of the season.

Klopp was fully on board with that stance.

Klopp has been undertaking press conferences for Liverpool since 2015 (Alex Livesey/Getty Images)

But now the nerves and anxiety of the title race have been lifted and Champions League qualification is secured, the final two home games will be a celebration.

“The pressure is off now.