Jurgen Klopp opens up on clear the air talks with Mohamed Salah over Liverpool captaincy

Jurgen Klopp has revealed he held clear the air talks with Mo Salah, and insisted: “He is in a good mood, he is laughing in training, everything is fine.”

The star striker admitted his disappointment recently, in an interview with a Spanish paper, at being overlooked for the Liverpool captaincy, which was instead handed to local boy Trent Alexander-Arnold.

Salah also refused to rule out a move to either Real Madrid or Barcelona, saying only: “Who knows what will happen in the future”, but Klopp spoke at length to the Egypt international, to explain his reasoning about the captain’s armband.

“Trent got the captaincy because he was longest in the club. I spoke to Mo afterwards about it. Not before, but afterwards, when I realised it didn’t work out that well.