76 days ago Liverpool lost to Real Madrid in the Champions League final, lots of things have happened since then, but Jurgen Klopp has taken a huge swipe at Sergio Ramos ahead of the new season starting.
In case you'd forgotten, and it's been difficult to forget considering how many times it's been repeated, Sergio Ramos' challenge on Mo Salah in the Champions League final led to the Egyptian going off injured midway through the first half.
The loss of their best player led Liverpool to have a rethink of their tactics and they rarely looked like worrying Los Blancos from there on in and were on the end of a 3-1 loss thanks, in part, to Loris Karius' mistakes.
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It's quite incredible just how much has happened since then. From Zinedine Zidane leaving Real Madrid, to the whole of the World Cup, to Cristiano Ronaldo also leaving the Bernabeu to the entirety of the Premier League transfer window, there's been a lot of news since the final.
However, despite all that, we'll seemingly be talking about Ramos' and Salah for eternity. Ahead of the season Jurgen Klopp did an interview with German site Sport 1 and was asked about winning at all costs with the former Borussia Dortmund manager saying:
"I don't want to win by any means.
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"Of course I would have liked to become a Champions League winner, and I would not have returned the title if shown various indiscretions.
"I do not expect that from him [Ramos], I only expect that he gives more thought to his assessment of certain situations.
"It may have been a coincidence, but Mo Salah was taken out of the game during an outstanding phase of his footballing life, in the middle of the field.
"Many people will say that these things happen. But if that is the message we are sending to our children, that nothing is out of bounds and it's all about winning, then I will be glad to leave this planet in 40 years.
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"Am I a good loser? No. But during our preparations we had to talk about Ramos because he had influenced the final the previous year with a dive and a red card [for Juan Cuadrado] against Juventus.
"Real Madrid have deserved to win the Champions League, nobody has ever said anything else. But do you have to have those situations with Ramos? No, you don't."
If people could stop asking Klopp about Ramos and if the Liverpool manager could stop blaming Ramos for the defeat and we could all just move on that would be absolutely smashing.
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