Jurgen Klopp again tried to move on from his public altercation with Mohamed Salah against West Ham in his latest pre-match press conference.
The Liverpool pair clashed on the sidelines at the London Stadium as the 31-year-old was seemingly left unimpressed at only being introduced as a substitute late on. Exchanging angry words, Darwin Nunez subsequently played the role of peace-maker as and led Salah away.
Klopp played down the clash after the game, insisting it was resolved after speaking to the forward in the dressing room. However, Salah would create further headlines by declaring that ‘There will be fire’ if he spoke when walking through the mixed zone after the final whistle.
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Speaking for the first time since Salah’s retort, Klopp would insist everything was fine between the pair on Friday, as he labelled their altercation as a ‘non-story’.
"It's completely resolved. It's no problem," he said. "If we wouldn't know each other for that long, I'm not sure how we would deal with it. But we know each other for that long and respect each other too much so it's really no problem.
"I think we have the right to deal with these kind of things completely independent of any expectations from the outside. We are absolutely fine with it. That's a non-story.
"But in general, the best situation would be everybody is in the best possible place. We win the games, we score loads of goals.
"Yes, then the situation would have probably not been exactly like that because Mo would not have been on the bench in the first place. It all
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