Jurgen Klopp says he is not worried about Erling Haaland being punished retroactively, like Virgil van Dijk was at Newcastle following his dismissal.

Haaland was enraged that referee Simon Hooper had not given Manchester City an advantage after his ball to Jack Grealish late in the game, as the Norwegian international was furious as Manchester City was held to a 3-3 draw with Tottenham Hotspur at the Etihad on Sunday evening.

After seeing a video of the event, the center-forward tweeted the abbreviation “wtf.” It has been suggested that the Football Association may sanction the City forward for his outburst.

For his response after being sent off against Newcastle back in August, Van Dijk was fined £100,000 and handed an additional game suspension. Some have speculated that Haaland would suffer a similar fate for his post-match resentment.

Even though it would clearly assist Liverpool, Klopp is not interested in seeing the leading goal scorer in the Premier League—14 goals—banned for City.

“I don’t know,” Klopp said. “In most of the years the thing Virgil said no one would have recognised. [He said] ‘F****** joke’ wasn’t it? I have no idea exactly what Haaland said, I didn’t follow it.

“It is like it is. To be honest I didn’t think for a second about it, when I heard about it, it wasn’t ‘oh we get it, they don’t.’ As long as you are not emotionally involved it is much easier to accept it, in the heat of the moment it is more difficult. They would have probably thought about it and I have no opinion on the outcome.”

In addition, Klopp reaffirmed that Joel Matip’s knee injury is likely to be serious as the Reds await the findings of a scan following his substitution in Sunday’s 4-3 victory over Fulham.

He added: “When the doctor comes in and says ‘it doesn’t look great’ [we fear the worst] but we have to wait for the scans and the scan isn’t here yet.

“So you can imagine it doesn’t look great. It is never good news [when the doctor says that]. I’ve never had that in all my years where someone says: ‘Oh my God, [the initial diagnosis of an injury] is completely wrong, there’s nothing wrong, he can play tomorrow.’ It doesn’t happen.”