Liverpool's coach,
Klopp during a press conference after Saturday's win over Arsenal, while answering questions regarding international breaks referred to the
He said, "I've heard that so often that there's no international break until March. In January, there's a little tournament in
Responding to journalist, Ojora Babtunde who asked him to apologize for 'demeanly regarding the
Klopp said his comment was misinterpreted. "I didn't mean it like that. I don't know why you understand it like that.
"It's not even close to the idea in my mind that I want to talk about
"What I meant is, because people said, and if you watch the full press conference, if you wanted to understand it in the right way you could have understood it in the right way. I said 'there's no international break anymore until March' and I said: 'Oh and there's a little tournament in January,' and I didn't mean a little tournament, just like you say it when there's still a tournament. It's ironic. There's still a tournament. A big one. We lose our best players to the Africa Cup of Nations.
"I'm not a native speaker, but if you want to understand me wrong you can do that all the time. I know that I would never think like this. I never understand why you thought like this to be honest, but that's really not OK, because I would never do that, but that's it now.
"It was not my intention, but you made something of it. That's not so cool as well to be 100 per cent honest." He said
Liverpool will be without
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