RAMOS RUTHLESS, BRUTAL IN UCL FINAL, SAYS KLOPP

Chicago:liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has slammed Real Madrid’ captain Sergio Ramos for his foul on Mohamed Salah in May’s Champions League final, saying the Spanish defender brought down the forward like a wrestler.

“We are opening that bottle again?” Klopp asked in a news conference ahead of Liverpool’s International Champions Cup game against Manchester United at the Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor. “It is action-reaction-action-reaction and I don’t like that but – if you watch it back and you are not with Real Madrid – then you think it is ruthless and brutal. “I saw the ref taking charge of big games at the World Cup and nobody really thinks about that later. But in a situation like that somebody needs to judge it better.

“If VAR is coming then it is a situation where you have to look again. Not to give a red card but to look again and say: ‘What is that?’ It was ruthless.”

Salah left the pitch in tears in Kiev with huge questions hanging over his participation at the World Cup in Russia.

Ramos later brushed off allegations that he had deliberately injured Salah, saying he was being unfairly painted as a pantomime villain.

SIGNINGS LIKELY AS BARCA EYE REVAMP

LOS ANGELES: Barcelona have already splashed €118million ahead of the new La Liga season and coach Ernesto Valverde says transfer business is not finished.

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JUVE SIGN 16-YEAR-OLD PRODIGY FROM BARCA

Turin:juventus have announced the signing of 16-year-old starlet Pablo Moreno from Barcelona.

The Spanish striker arrives after scoring more than 200 goals for Barca’s various youth teams at the famed La Masia academy, since joining from Granada five years ago. Moreno is believed to have cost the Turin giants €700k, which is widely considered to be a steal.