Jurgen Klopp shares his initial reaction to Loris Karius concussion

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Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool lost to Real Madrid in the Champions League final last season.

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has revealed to the club’s official website his initial reaction when he heard about the concussion suffered by Loris Karius during the Champions League final against Real Madrid last season.

Karius suffered a concussion during the match, but it was not known until days later.

The German goalkeeper made two bad mistakes, as Madrid got the better of Liverpool 3-1 to win the Champions League for the third season in a row.

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Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has revealed his initial reaction when he heard from Bayern Munich and Germany legend Franz Beckenbauer about the concussion suffered by the 25-year-old goalkeeper.

Klopp told Liverpool’s official website: “After four days I got a call from Franz Beckenbauer, our Bobby Moore, our biggest football player who is a good friend of mine.

“He called me and said he came from a doctor, he told me: ‘your goalkeeper had a concussion.’ I said, ‘what?’ because in the game, from my position that situation is not very good to see: ‘maybe there was contact or not.’ I told him immediately, ‘OK’.

“He said the doctor is the most famous doctor in Germany. I said: ‘OK, give me a few minutes, I have to fix a few things.’

“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?’

“How can we think that? That was, for me, the explanation and I thought: ‘OK, come on, we need to check that.’”

Moving on

Karius, who earns £25,000 per week as salary according to The Express, will know how bad his mistakes were against Madrid, but the 25-year-old German goalkeeper will have to move on.

The former Germany Under-21 international will have to show that he is strong enough to put those mistakes behind him and have a good pre-season.

Karius has been on the books of Liverpool since the summer of 2016 when he joined from German club Mainz for a transfer fee reported by The Telegraph to be worth £4.75 million.