Klopp 'never in doubt' about Salah's character after Israel-Hamas social media post

Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp wants the Israel conflict to be left outside of football.

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00:00 First of all, this is not a politically motivated question,

00:04 but Mohamed Salah posted a message on social media this week

00:09 about the Israel-Gaza situation, which is 170 million people.

00:13 I'm just wondering how you feel about players getting involved in that sort of thing...

00:19 How is that not political?

00:21 Well, on the influence he has...

00:24 Why do you start your question with how he started it, and then it becomes political?

00:29 No, it's not.

00:31 No, what I'm saying is, he's showing his character and individualism to do that,

00:36 how do you think that is important for you as a player to have strong characters

00:42 and that will make them successful?

00:44 It's very important that we have strong characters, and I was a little bit in doubt,

00:48 but I'm really not sure that this is the right place to discuss this super, super serious subject

00:55 in a football environment.

00:57 It's really nice that nobody asks you for your opinion in this case,

01:05 so I really think we should leave it out of this room,

01:09 but I was not for a second in doubt about Mohamed's character,

01:13 or whatever, it has nothing to do with the message he put out.