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.