Klopp says he will ‘drive himself’ any player leaving for CL

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp said he would personally drive any of his players to another club if they wished to leave the club after the Premier League side failed to qualify for the Champions League.

Liverpool will finish the season in fifth place, qualifying for the Europa League for the first time since Klopp’s first full season at the Anfield club.

Mohamed Salah said he was “totally devastated” that Liverpool had failed to secure Champions League qualification, but Klopp said there were no concerns about the frustrated forward’s future at the club.

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“No worries (about Salah’s future)… Obviously Mo loves being here and Mo was part of it. He said apologies for what ‘we’ did, not apologies for ‘what the other guys did, but I had to go with them’. Not at all, it’s all fine,” Klopp said.

“If a player would come to me and say, ‘Oh we didn’t qualify for the Champions League, I have to leave,’ I would drive him to the other club myself. I would take the key and say, ‘Come in the car, where do you want to go? I’ll drive you.’

“That would be something I never could understand. It’s like me saying: ‘We didn’t qualify for the Champions League and I need to work in the Champions League, so I go.’ I am responsible for this mess, so you cannot go in these moments.”