Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp insisted Friday his spat with Mohamed Salah has been “completely resolved,” saying his long history with the star forward ensured there was no lasting damage to their relationship.
Klopp and Salah were involved in a touchline confrontation
during the 2-2 draw at West Ham on Saturday. When Salah was asked after the
game to comment on the incident, the Egypt international was heard saying:
“There’s going to be a fire today if I speak.”
Nearly a week later, Klopp said the matter was a
“non-story.”
“There’s no problem,” said Klopp, who was speaking ahead of
Liverpool’s home match with Tottenham in the Premier League on Sunday. “If we
wouldn’t know each other for that long, I don’t know how we would deal with it
but we know each other for that long and respect each other too much that it’s
really no problem.”
The Incident happened as Salah was preparing to come on as a
substitute, having been selected on the bench for the second time in three
games.
“In general, the best situation would be everybody is in the
best possible place, we win games, we score lots of goals. Yes, then the
situation (with Salah) would probably not have been exactly like that,” Klopp
said. “Then Mo wouldn’t have been on the bench in the first place.”
Klopp, who is leaving Liverpool at the end of the season
after nearly nine years in charge, was asked if the 31-year-old Salah should be
part of the new manager’s plans. Salah, a Liverpool player since 2017, has been
linked with a move to the Saudi league.
“I’ve said before, what a player he is. That he’s
incredible,” Klopp said. “But I don’t think I should speak about that, to be
honest. Other people will decide that, especially Mo.
“I don’t have any signs it will not be like that. But I’m
really the wrong person already for a few weeks to talk about these kind of
things.” AP
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