Barcelona great Hristo Stoichkov has slammed Jurgen Klopp and Chelsea manager Enzo Maresca  over their comments made about the ongoing Club World Cup.

The former Liverpool manager branded the tournament as the “worst idea ever in football” while Maresca was furious with the two-hour weather delay that almost Chelsea the game, calling the situation a “joke.

In a chat with El Mundo, Stoichkov stated that the competition has so far been a success, and there’s barely anything FIFA can do about the weather.

He said: “I didn’t expect that from Jürgen.

“I have so much respect for him that maybe if he’s a little angry it’s because Salzburg aren’t (any longer) in the competition because he’s a director of Red Bull.

“When Liverpool were playing nobody complained, when they receive money nobody complains. I think we need to have more respect in these tournaments.

“I had the chance to play in it in the past, when it was just a few matches, but I think that both Gianni (Infantino) and FIFA have done something different. You bring together many cultures, new systems, new tactics, many different teams that didn’t know each other before playing in a tournament like this.

“Everything is fantastically good. First of all, the fans have never been absent from the ground, except for one match where there were warnings of suspension due to thunderstorms. Yesterday Maresca (Chelsea manager, Enzo) also complained about the rain, but what do we do? Do we give Infantino a remote control to stop the rain? They complain about everything.”