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Jurgen Klopp insists he’s more concerned about Christian Benteke’s knee injury than the Liverpool striker’s recent outburst on international duty.

The £32.5million frontman won’t feature in Saturday’s Premier League clash with Tottenham at Anfield, and is also expected to sit out Thursday’s Europa League trip to Borussia Dortmund.

Liverpool are awaiting the results of a scan on his knee amid fears he will be sidelined for up to a month with knee ligament damage. The problem forced Benteke to drop out of the Belgium squad last week but only after he had voiced his frustrations to media in his homeland.

Benteke. who has started just one league game since the turn of the year, said he found it difficult to understand why Klopp “ignores him” and bemoaned being reduced to a bench warmer.

The 25-year-old faces an uncertain future with West Ham having already declared their interest in signing him this summer.

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However, there were no showdown talks on Benteke’s return to Melwood. Klopp says he’s relaxed about the striker’s comments and is simply focused on trying to get him back fit as soon as possible.

“Maybe I should have spoken to him but it really isn’t important because when he came back he was injured and now that’s much more important,” Klopp said.

“I have no problems with players who are not satisfied when they don’t play. It’s always the same answer – it’s up to the player to change the situation. For it’s easy to react to things like this.

“I didn’t read what he said to be honest. Afew guys told me about it but for me there is nothing too serious about it.

“When players go to their national teams, especially with the situation of Christian Benteke in Belgium, then they ask and if he’d have said: ‘I’m really happy at Liverpool and I like that I only play a few minutes’ that would be strange too.

“It’s not perfect but it’s not a real problem. The problem is that he’s now injured.”