Ragnar Klavan believes Sergio Ramos deliberately injured Mohamed Salah in the 2018 Champions League final, but admits the Liverpool dressing room were not in agreement about the incident following the final whistle.
The Egyptian was infamously forced off with a shoulder injury in the first half in Kiev following an altercation with the Spaniard as the Reds suffered a 3-1 defeat to Real Madrid.
And while Klavan doesn't believe the defender intended to injure the Liverpool forward ahead of the coming-together, he believes he made sure it would cause Salah as much pain as possible.
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"Yes, (we talked about it in the dressing room). There were different opinions, just like around the world," he told the Betsafe Eesti podcast. "But I can say he went for the foul.
"He didn't mean it as it came out, but when he saw the fall, he gave his best that it would be painful for Salah.
"He didn't intend to do it, but when it happened, yes (he could have prevented it), he took the maximum out of it for his team."
Klavan also revealed how the Reds reacted to Loris Karius ' two costly errors in the final in the dressing room after the game, admitting he thinks the German is still haunted by the final defeat.
"For sure (I felt sorry for him). That's the other side. Things happen, and for him, the biggest magnifying glass in club football was pointed at him," he said. "The whole world saw it. It just happened at that time and it's very harsh for him.
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"He still needs it (external help). I think that he has not recovered from it. He doesn't think of it every second.
"I'd say that even before, he wasn't a persona like Oliver Kahn. "No matter what the world thinks, I'm gonna keep on walking." I think so (it hurt him).
"Yes (it hurt me), but he is a team member. He has carried the team out from bad situations before, but now it was reversed.
"In a team, the situation is never what the world reflects. 'You made a mistake' and so on. The team acknowledges the mistake but you have done good things and will do so in the future as well.
"For him, it was a moment when the whole world was watching him."
