Jurgen Klopp is unconcerned about Erling Haaland facing retrospective punishment, as Virgil van Dijk did following his red card at Newcastle.

On Sunday evening, after Manchester City were beaten to a 3-3 draw by Tottenham Hotspur at the Etihad, Haaland was enraged that referee Simon Hooper had declined to play an advantage from his late ball to Jack Grealish.

The centre-forward later tweeted the acronym ‘wtf’ in reaction to a video of the event, and it has been suggested that the City forward may face disciplinary action from the Football Association as a result of his outburst.

Van Dijk was fined £100,000 and handed an extra game ban in August for his response to being dismissed at Newcastle, and some have speculated that Haaland may face a similar fate for his post-match anger.

Despite the obvious positives for Liverpool, Klopp is uninterested in seeing the Premier League’s 14-goal leading scorer suspended 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.”

Klopp also stated that Joel Matip’s knee injury is likely to be serious, as the Reds await the results of a scan after his departure from Sunday’s 4-3 win against Fulham.

“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,” he add.

“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.”