Jurgen Klopp reacts to Erling Haaland’s punishment following Liverpool’s fine & ban

Jurgen Klopp is unconcerned about Erling Haaland receiving retrospective punishment, as Virgil van Dijk did following his red card at Newcastle.

On Sunday evening, after Manchester City were held to a 3-3 draw by Tottenham Hotspur at the Etihad, Haaland was enraged that referee Simon Hooper had refused to play an advantage from his late pass to Jack Grealish.

The centre-forward later tweeted the acronym ‘wtf‘ in response to a clip of the incident and it’s been claimed the City forward could come in for punishment from the Football Association as a result of the outburst.

Van Dijk was fined £100,000 and given an extra game ban in August for his reaction to being dismissed at Newcastle, and some have speculated that Haaland may face a similar fate for his post-match frustrations.

Despite the obvious benefits for Liverpool, Klopp is uninterested in seeing the Premier League’s 14-goal top scorer banned for City.

“I don’t know,” Klopp admitted. “Most of the time, no one would have recognized what Virgil said. Wasn’t it a ‘F****** joke,’ he said? I have no idea what Haaland said because I didn’t pay attention.

“That’s how it is. To be honest, I didn’t think twice about it; when I heard about it, I didn’t think, ‘Oh, we get it, they don’t.’ Accepting it is much easier when you are not emotionally involved; it is more difficult when you are emotionally involved. They would have most likely considered it, and I have no opinion on the outcome.”