Jurgen Klopp says he has “no worries” over Mohamed Salah’s future at Liverpool regardless of the winger saying he was “devastated” about failing to qualify for the Champions League.
Klopp’s facet will end fifth and play in subsequent season’s Europa League
“Mo loves being here and Mo was part of it,” Klopp stated on Friday.
“He said apologies for what ‘we’ did – not apologies for ‘what the other guys did, but I had to go with them’. It is all fine.”
The Egypt worldwide stated on Twitter on Thursday: “There’s absolutely no excuse for this. We had everything we needed to make it to next year’s Champions League and we failed.
“We are Liverpool and qualifying to the competitors is the naked minimal. I’m sorry but it surely’s too quickly for an uplifting or optimistic publish. We allow you to and ourselves down.”
Salah, who signed a brand new three-year contract – worth more than £350,000-a-week – with Liverpool last summer, has scored 19 league goals this season.
Asked whether he was concerned about Salah’s future at the club following the 30-year-old’s social media comments, the Liverpool manager said: “No worries, no. I solely heard what he stated however I could not learn something that would lead in that path.
“If ever a player would come to me and said, ‘oh, we didn’t qualify for the Champions League, I have to leave’, I would drive him to the other club myself.
“I might take the important thing, [and say]: ‘come within the automobile, the place do you wish to go, I drive you’.”
United only needed a point at home to Chelsea in the penultimate game of their season to confirm their Champions League place.
Liverpool won seven of their past eight games in a late push for fourth place, but could not make up for their inconsistent run of form in the first half of the season.
Klopp stated the squad continues to be “actually united” despite the disappointment of missing out on the last Champions League qualification spot.
“We did not level fingers at one another. That’s all good. If you do not qualify for the Champions League, one of the best place you’ll be able to presumably find yourself is fifth, so that is what we did,” he said before Liverpool visit Southampton on Sunday.
“If you’d have requested me 10 video games in the past if that was potential, I’d have stated no. That the boys did that’s actually good but it surely’s not good.
“We didn’t end up fifth because of the last 10 games, we ended up there because of the lack of consistency before that.”
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
