Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp says he will personally send any of his players to another club if he wishes to leave Anfield after the Premier League rivals failed to qualify for the Champions League.
Liverpool will finish fifth in the Premier League and secured qualification for the Europa League, but failed to reach the most prominent continental club championships for the first time since the first full season during which Klopp led the team.
Egypt's top scorer Mohamed Salah said he was "completely broken" by Liverpool's failure to qualify for the Champions League, but Klopp insisted there were no concerns about the striker's frustrated future with the club.
The German coach said: "Don't worry (about Salah's future). Obviously he likes to be here and he was part of here, he apologized for what we did, he didn't apologize for what others did."
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"If one of the players comes to me and says, 'We didn't qualify for the Champions League', I have to leave, I'll drive him to the other club myself, I'll take the key and say come with me to the car, where do you want to go? I'll get you
where you want."
Klopp added: "This is something I could never understand. As I say to the players: we didn't qualify for the Champions League and that's why I need to work to get back to it. I'm responsible for this mess, so I have to accept it."
Liverpool have reached the Champions League final three times under Klopp and won the title in 3. The Europa League, the second continental tournament in terms of importance, has long been underestimated.