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Jurgen Klopp has become the first Premier League manager to break cover and insist that sanctions against Roman Abramovich, and Chelsea, are the right response to Vladimir Putin ’s aggression.

And the Liverpool manager believes now is the right time for football’s authorities to take a far closer look at where the money invested in clubs is coming from - with stricter checks on Premier League owners.

Klopp says he feels nothing but sympathy for Chelsea’s employees, with a cloud hanging over the club, but he said: “One man is responsible for it, Vladimir Putin.

“I don’t know about Roman Abramovich but it is clear he is pretty close [to Putin] and I think the British government is right.

“It is pretty obvious where the money is coming from. Everyone knew it, but we accepted it. That’s our fault. It is society’s fault so we accepted it.

“Now we cannot accept it anymore and so we punish them, it is not Chelsea’s fault. Not at all.”

Klopp believes though, that there needs to be far more scrutiny over owners, with clubs increasingly being bought by oligarchs, super-rich individuals and even