Man City boss Pep Guardiola's brilliant 'coconuts' message to Jurgen Klopp over Liverpool FC fixture moan

Pep Guardiola says that any managers who can’t stand the heat should get out of the Premier League kitchen. And he suggested that anyone who cannot cope with the hectic schedule might be better sitting under a coconut tree and managing in the Maldives!

The Manchester City boss was in jovial mood when asked about Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp’s moan about the way his team has been forced to play a league game at Newcastle with a 12.30pm kick-off on Saturday, less than three days after their Champions League semi-final clash with Villarreal. Next season, there will be a rule against a team playing a 12.30pm Saturday game when they have played on Wednesday night, and that led to a Liverpool complaint to the Premier League about it happening this season.

The fact that Liverpool have a shortened gap between the two legs of their Champions League semi-final tie, with the second leg on Tuesday, has also riled Klopp, although City faced a similar situation with the quarter-finals when in the space of six days they faced Liverpool twice with the second leg of their Atletico Madrid clash wedged in between.

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Guardiola repeated his usual mantra about how the broadcasters call the shots, and nothing the managers say will make any difference, and then made his suggestion that any manager who does not like it should think of going to work in an easier climate.

“Always I sympathise about the concerns of Liverpool,” he said, with a smile, when asked about Klopp’s grumble. “How many times have we discussed about what's happened to us and I've said I don't want to talk about that? Nothing is going to change.

“It's not going to change because the broadcasters are thinking about what they have