Liverpool manager, Jurgen Klopp has opened up on the position of goalkeeper Loris Karius at the club.
Karius made terrible errors that saw the Reds fall 3-1 to Real Madrid in the Champions League final in May.
But Klopp has said the German goal tender will remain Liverpool’s first choice goalkeeper, adding that his errors in the Champions League final were because he was concussed.
Karius was diagnosed as suffering from concussion by two American doctors days after the final as a result of an elbow from Real’s Sergio Ramos.
Klopp told Liverpoolfc.com thus, “I don’t know exactly what people think or made of the situation. The only thing I can say is he had a concussion in the game.” said Klopp.
“Whoever had a concussion knows there is not one way how it feels, there are different ways. He didn’t feel it obviously.
“That’s how concussions are. The guy who has it is the last one to be aware of it probably.”
Klopp, who will be under pressure to deliver some silverware this season after taking Liverpool to three finals and losing all of them, says it took a phone call from German legend, Franz Beckenbauer — who spoke to “Germany’s most famous doctor” — to convince him he had concussion.
“I got all the pictures from different perspectives, saw it and thought: ‘how can we all think that the boy who didn’t show any weakness in that game until then, made these big mistakes in a very important game and nobody thinks it’s because of the knock he got’?” said Klopp.
“But now I know a concussion isn’t coming and going in a day. Five days after the final, Loris had 26 of 30 markers for a concussion still. That’s clear.”
“So, from this point of view, from my side, everything is fine. We don’t think about that anymore and we start completely new,” said Klopp.
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