The manager was asked to clarify reports this week that the Austrian serves as a goalkeeping consultant for the club.
“Giving advice for the scouting department, nothing else. It’s not that he makes any decisions, he can’t. That’s how it is,” replied Klopp at his pre-Southampton press conference.
“But goalkeeping is a special position, so I think it makes sense that in the scouting department we have somebody who is more responsible for that.
“But it’s not that he comes in and says, ‘I found it, this is our new No.1’.
“We have a lot of goalkeepers at the club for different age groups, and that’s what his job is, first of all.