Liverpool Jurgen Klopp says one moment will not change his view of an individual after he was asked about Sadio Mane refusing to shake his hand.
The incident occurred following Liverpool's 4-2 win over Manchester United at Old Trafford on Thursday night. Mane did not start the game coming on as a second-half substiute and appeared to make his feelings on the matter clear by ignoring his manager as he left the field.
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Klopp insists there is no issue with Mane haveing been questioned by Talksport's Ian 'Moose' Abrahams, who suggested he would be in trouble at work for such a display towards his boss.
The German manager said Mane has plenty of credit in the bank of respect already, while sympathising with the Talksport employment policies.
"If somebody shows me five million times respect and one time not, what is more important?" asked Klopp.
"The world is in a situation where you make this one time thing bigger than necessary, that is unfortunately the case.
"I hope your boss for you the one time you don't show him respect he doesn't forget all of the other stuff.
"Even now when I speak already I can see the headlines you are making out of it!" Guilty, Jurgen. Guilty.
Klopp: Top Four
The win put Liverpool very much in the driving seat to secure a top four finish, with Chelsea and Leicester set to meet on Tuesday.
Klopp is adamant nothing has changed, and the only way Liverpool can secure Champions League football is focusing on themsleves.
"It is not the only thing that is decisive, we have to play the right football. We have to make challenges, we have to score goals. We have to play well, we have to deny them their strengths.
"That is the only thing that changed after the Chelsea game but we have the same job to do, we had to win all of our games.
"The only thing that changed was whtehr that would be enough, that was not clear before then wheter winng all of the games would be enough, but that did not make a difference yesterday because we knew that our job was winning football games.
"That has always been the case, now even more," Klopp coincluded.
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