Loan move ‘nothing to do with final mistakes’

– Liverpool goalkeeper Loris Karius, 25, has insisted he did not join Besiktas on loan to escape Merseyside after his Champions League final nightmare.

He made two costly mistakes in the second-half of Liverpool’s 3-1 defeat to Real Madrid in Kiev last May.

First, the pass he threw clipped Karim Benzema and went into the Reds’ net to give Real the opener, then he let a long-range Gareth Bale shot slip through his hands for Madrid’s third.

However, later it emerged Karius had suffered concussion when elbowed by Sergio Ramos during an offthe-ball incident before his errors.

“I have no problem with Jurgen Klopp, he never blamed me (for the mistakes in Kiev).” –

Berlin