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Jurgen Klopp has been fined £45,000 after admitting his FA charge for comments he made about referee Kevin Friend.

Klopp was charged by the FA last week because they felt the Liverpool boss questioned Friend’s integrity.

Klopp said Friend’s performance in Liverpool’s 1-1 draw with West Ham last month might have been affected by his realisation at half-time that he should have disallowed the Reds’ goal for offside.

“I heard our goal was offside, I’m pretty sure the ref knew that,” said the Liverpool boss.

“In 50-50 situations it was always a free-kick for the other team, which was hard and did not make life easy.”

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The fine is Klopp’s second brush with the FA this season and he was ordered to pay £8,000 for running onto the pitch to celebrate Divock Origi’s last-gasp winner in the Merseyside derby at Anfield in December.

Klopp later apologised to Everton boss Marco Silva, saying: “It’s absolutely OK,” he said. “I couldn’t avoid it obviously.

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"If everybody did it every week....that’s what rules are for.

“If you break the rules, that happens. It’s completely normalI said that the last time I did it 14 years ago and I’m not as quick anymore. It’s fine.”