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Jurgen Klopp has opened up on Liverpool's Champions League final defeat and branded Real Madrid skipper Sergio Ramos “ruthless” and a “wrestler”.

Ramos was involved in two controversial incidents in Liverpool's 3-1 defeat, forcing Mo Salah out of the game with a dislocated shoulder, then taking out keeper Loris Karius with another brutal challenge.

Klopp, who had remained silent on Ramos until now, is convinced he deliberately targeted both players and accused him of being a serial offender who has got away with such brutal acts and sly antics throughout his career.

“I watched that back, of course,” said Klopp. “If you watch it back and you're not with Real Madrid, then you think it's ruthless and brutal.

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“You don't think 'Wow, good challenge'. It was ruthless. I don't think Mo would have always got injured in that situation, and this time it was unlucky.

“But it's an experience that we cannot have. I'm not sure if it's an experience we'll have again - go there and put an elbow to the goalkeeper, put their goalscorer down like a wrestler in midfield and then you win the game.

“It was a little bit like that, and that was the story of the game. Ramos said a lot of things that I didn't like. As a person I didn't like the reactions of him.

“He was like 'Whatever, what do they want? It's normal'. No, it's not normal.

“If you put all of the situations of Ramos together - and I've watched football since I was five-years-old - then you will see a lot of situations with Ramos.

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“In the final the year before, against Juventus, he was responsible for the red card for Juan Cuadrado. He touched him and Ramos makes a big act of it. Nobody talks about that afterwards.

“The ref should have had the courage to decide that game. It doesn't feel right, but it is what it is, we can't change it.

“Obviously in this situation we didn't get it and people will say I'm weak or a bad loser or a whiner. I'm not. I accept it. It's not like I wake up in the morning and think 'Ramos!'

I'm fine with it.”

In the wake of the defeat, Liverpool produced a medical report claiming Karius was suffering from concussion as a result of the Ramos challenge and that was a factor in the two crucial mistakes the keeper made.

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Klopp knew the move would be seen by many as a desperate attempt by Liverpool to protect Karius from the criticism that came his way, but insisted there was nothing dubious about the medical report.

“How can we imagine that a player, who didn't show any signs, not in the game, not before that game, that he will do these things and that it's not influenced by the knock?” said Klopp.

“It was very important for Lorius. He thought he was 100 per cent responsible and the doc told him 'you're not'. In this moment, your vision is different.

“I knew what people would think when we did it and made it public - that we were only doing it for us, that it makes no sense, but that's fine.

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“But the doctor was the head of the concussion department of the NFL in Boston.

“He said it was likely Lorius was influenced. Can he say for sure? Of course he can't, but it's likely, so that's the word.

“We didn't use it for one second as an excuse, but how can we not put it out as an explanation?

“The problem is that people don't believe it, then we bring in a new goalkeeper and people think we don't believe it as well, which isn't true.

“If Alisson was on the market and we'd won the final, we would have gone for him, because we think he's the goalkeeper we want.”