How much Liverpool have been forced to pay in fines after just seven Premier League games

For five consecutive years under Jurgen Klopp, between 2016/17 and 2020/21, Liverpool topped the Premier League Fair Play table each season.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, considering they have been on the receiving end of four red cards already this campaign, they currently sit bottom of this year’s chart. While only five teams have received fewer than their total of 13 yellow cards, those dismissals, twice as many as any other side, have wracked up the Reds’ penalty points after just seven games played.

“It’s important to me that people don’t start thinking we have so many red cards so we are a kicking team. We don’t (go kicking players),” Klopp insisted to reporters after last weekend’s controversial loss to Tottenham - which saw both Curtis Jones and Diogo Jota dismissed.

“The first red card (vs AFC Bournemouth) for Alex (Mac Allister) wasn’t a red card. Second (Virgil van Dijk vs Newcastle United) is for a normal foul I would say.

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“Third is for that situation (about Curtis), and the fourth I don’t understand how many games where you see 11 vs 9. It doesn’t happen all that often and we were not kicking Tottenham players. We were trying to play football.”

Because of those two red cards last weekend, Liverpool will be without both Jones and Jota for Sunday’s trip to Brighton & Hove Albion. Meanwhile, the midfielder will also sit out a Merseyside derby at home to Everton as well as Nottingham Forest’s visit to Anfield as he serves a three-match ban.

Beyond the pair, Mac Allister could be the next Reds player to serve a suspension, overlooking future red cards, after picking up his