- Liverpool manager believes striker has long been a target
- Klopp: ‘Sadio is now much better at dealing with that’
Jürgen Klopp has told Sadio Mané to control his emotions when provoked by opponents and “pay them back with football”. The Liverpool manager believes opposition players regularly attempt to antagonise the striker, and was embroiled in a furious row with Mikel Arteta last weekend after the Arsenal bench appealed for a card when Mané caught Takehiro Tomiyasu.
Klopp admits he has spoken to the Senegal international about not rising to the bait, and is confident the advice has been heeded. “It has been a thing for much longer,” said Klopp. “Even when it was not obvious to the outside. You can see it in games that they go for him because they want to wind him up.
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