After the dismal mistake that cost Liverpool three points against Bournemouth, Gary Neville went on a rant with Jamie Carragher against the goalkeeper. Karius then responded y dismissing Neville's criticism, not too soon after that, Gary's brother Phil came out to defend him on television and also criticized Karius' low form. This angered Jurgen Klopp who was confused by hearing harsh criticism from two people who were players not too long ago.
When asked about the issue, Klopp said: "I'm not interested in creating headlines. A few things are obvious, a few things are not. Working with the goalkeepers and other players – that is all I care about. It's never about one player. Whatever I say about this would create headlines – good and bad. Maybe you are all blind because everybody is asking me about this situation [Payet's goal] and I have only seen it one time – during the game.
"Things like this happen. With all goals we can do a surgery to pick apart what we can do and what happened and I accept this. But goals like this happen. We have to find the guy who doesn't jump or whatever. But it was brilliant from Payet. I saw him training before the game and he missed all of his free-kick. I was hoping he would do that in the game too. Criticism is part of life. My job is to protect the players as much as we can, but I can't do that when they are on the pitch."
The manager continued: "I'm not surprised about it. In my first press conference I spoke about English media, and the pundits, the former players, forgot completely how it felt when they get criticised. Especially the Neville brothers, the one who was a manager, he should know. He is not interested in helping a Liverpool player. I don't listen to them. Carra doesn't speak too well about United players, and the Neville brothers don't care much about Liverpool. Now you have your headlines. Tell him [Gary Neville] I'm not on Twitter. If he wants to tell me something, don't do it on Twitter."
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