Mohamed Salah: Jurgen Klopp has 'no worries' over Egyptian winger's future at Liverpool
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Jurgen Klopp says he has "no worries" over Mohamed Salah's future at Liverpool despite the winger saying he was "devastated" about failing to qualify for the Champions League.
Salah posted his comments on social media shortly after Manchester United's 4-1 win over Chelsea on Thursday which denied Liverpool a top-four finish.
Klopp's side will finish fifth and play in next season's Europa League
"Mo loves being here and Mo was part of it," Klopp said 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 international said 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 competition is the bare minimum. I am sorry but it's too soon for an uplifting or optimistic post. We let you and ourselves down."
Salah, who signed a 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 only heard what he said but I couldn't read anything that could lead in that direction.
"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 would take the key, [and say]: 'come in the car, where do you want 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 said the squad is still "really united" despite the disappointment of missing out on the last Champions League qualification spot.
"We didn't point fingers at each other. That's all good. If you don't qualify for the Champions League, the best place you can possibly end up is fifth, so that's what we did," he said before Liverpool visit Southampton on Sunday.
"If you'd have asked me 10 games ago if that was possible, I'd have said no. That the boys did that is really good but it's not perfect.
"We didn't end up fifth because of the last 10 games, we ended up there because of the lack of consistency before that."
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With midfield reinforcements arriving shortly and perhaps a new CB also, Liverpool will be stronger next season.
Boston HQ is paying him £1.4m a month.
No other club would pay anything close to that amount for his services.
If he could get more elsewhere, he'd be gone.
He's not at Liverpool out of love, loyalty to the club, the fans or the city.
He's just another foreign kickballer working in the UK for the big money.
Klopp will follow Mane and the rest within two seasons, quite possibly the end of next season.
2- This article show how Jurgen, Salah, and LFC have sense of entitlement. An arrogant mentality, while this team only won one PL in 33 years.
3- Finally, it shows why all nation , except half of city of Liverpool, cheer for any team opposing LFC.
Man City’s big choice will be who replaces Pep. But Pep wasn’t the first to win a title for City and won’t be the last. LFC, MU, AFC all in the hunt over the next 10+ years.