'I haven't spoken to' - Jurgen Klopp continues to have dispute with national team manager

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp continues to have a dispute with Ireland's national team manager Stephen Kelly regarding Caiomhin Kelleher's ongoing injury.

The backup keeper has been out of action since June when Ireland drew 1-1 with Ukraine in the UEFA Nations League.

Since then, he's not played any game across pre-season or any of the new season and Klopp was reportedly unhappy with the national team's treatment of Kelleher's groin injury.

It was suffered in that game against Ukraine and Kelly claims he and Klopp have not spoken on the matter.

"I haven't spoke to Jurgen..."

Kelly claims that a one-on-one chat with Klopp is not needed to smooth out any potential dispute, despite Klopp's clear aggravation. But the manager claims that the two medical teams have been in constant contact.

“No, I haven’t spoken to Jurgen Klopp but the medical teams have been in constant contact so that’s been evident,” Kenny said.

“With Caoimhin, if Caoimhin tweaked something in the game against Ukraine it wasn’t evident by his performance. He performed very well and done everything really well. I honestly wasn’t aware of him being injured at that time.

“He trained with Liverpool when he went back for pre-season and got injured, but certainly it was something that we weren’t aware of it. The good thing is he’s making good progress and is back very soon, and should be back for the next camp for sure.”

Kenny admitted last month that “he was caught by surprise” by Klopp's comments as the German placed the blame on their medical team:

"Caoimh felt something after the international game and everybody, the medical department there, told him it’s fine and will be good after holiday,"

Kenny insisted there was no sign of injury while Kelleher was on Ireland duty, but Klopp hit back soon after:

“When you have a lot of injuries, as a manager you have to ask first yourself what went wrong, stuff like this,” Klopp said during the build-up to the Manchester United game last month.

"However, for us it’s like this: he got injured at Ireland and whoever was responsible for it in this moment did not pick it up." Klopp added.