Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has revealed his opposition to proposals to launch a UEFA Super League, admitting he hopes the plans never come to fruition.

Leaked documents published by German publication Der Spiegel last season revealed plans to form a 16-team competition that would essentially ring-fence a tournament to have the world's biggest clubs playing in European action every season.

It would mean some of the world's biggest clubs would be breaking away from their domestic competitions to take part in the Super League, but the controversial structure has since been played down by UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin.

Klopp staunchly opposes any potential plot to resume talks over the Super League, believing the current format of the Champions League to be the pinnacle of the European game.

He told Kicker : "I hope this Super League will never happen.

"With the way the Champions League is now running, football has a great product, even with the Europa League.

"For me, the Champions League is the Super League, in which you do not always end up playing against the same teams.

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"Of course, it is [financially] important, but why should we create a system where Liverpool faces Real Madrid for 10 straight years?

"Who wants to see that every year?”

Since moving to England in October 2015, Klopp has always been behind the idea of winter break in the Premier League - something that will come in to play for the first time in February.

As it stands, Liverpool are set to travel to Norwich on Saturday February 8 before resuming domestic action two weeks later at home to West Ham.

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It affords his squad a rare chance to rest up during a hectic and punishing schedule, but Klopp is weary of the ever-expanding fixture list and its impact on the players involved.

"FIFA and UEFA are still expanding the tournaments for more and more participants, apparently there is a fear of a day without football, but I think it's the other way around," he added.

"That's not what I'm looking at, not that. We used to have two or three weeks without football in the winter, so we had ski jumping, downhill skiing, biathlon, and in England, with its variety of popular sports it would not be a problem.

"Many people are trying to get as much of the cake as possible. It's quite common in life, except in football [it's] on the backs of players."

Klopp was also quizzed on who he feels will be the favourites for this season's Champions League after helping Liverpool to their sixth European crown on June 1 in Madrid.

Goals from Mohamed Salah and Divock Origi sealed a 2-0 win over Tottenham to land Klopp his first piece of silverware with the Reds in the Spanish capital.

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The result banished the disappointment of a year earlier when the Reds fell to a 3-1 reverse in the final against Real Madrid in Kiev.

Despite back-to-back appearances in the biggest fixture in club football, Klopp feels his side won't be considered favourites this time around and cited Premier League champions Manchester City as one of the early frontrunners.

"We are not the top favourite in the Champions League," he added.

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"Manchester City are once again a favourite, they are very good. In the Premier League, City are above everyone, they have a top combination with their coach and their squad."