Klopp dismisses Mane rumours | Thiago & Fabinho 'looking good' for CL final

Jurgen Klopp has confirmed that “it looks good” for Thiago and Fabinho to be fit enough to play for Liverpool in the Champions League final against Real Madrid on Saturday.

The midfield duo had been injury doubts but speaking at his pre-match press conference on Friday ahead of the game in Paris, the Liverpool boss suggested they would be available.

"It looks good for Thiago and Fabinho," said Klopp. "Fabinho trained yesterday and Thiago will train later today. The mood is good, very good. Really excited to be here now and getting a feeling for a stadium, location and that is all good."

One unexpected concern for Liverpool might be the state of the Stade de France pitch, looking less than its best having been freshly laid just this week.

"Usually when I say the pitch looks new, it's good news," he said. "This pitch is new since yesterday, that's not the best news. But it's [the same] for both teams.

"We will do a normal session as planned, it's our moment of the season. I saw the refs with their session and the ball drops normal. You can see the lines where they put the pitch in and that's not normal.

"Someone thought it was a good idea to bring the pitch in the day before, that's interesting! It didn't kill my mood for a second. We would have played on a petanque pitch. If both sides are fine with it, I'm fine with it.

"I hope nobody makes a story that Klopp is moaning about a pitch, I'm not. It just could be different."

Klopp is certainly hoping this game is very different to the previous meeting in the Champions League final between these two clubs when two errors by goalkeeper Loris Karius led to a 3-1 defeat in Kyiv. Mohamed Salah was also badly injured in that game.

"Whatever you do, you have to get experience,"