“It is impressive, it is good and deserved as well,” Klopp said.

“For me, my team is the team of the season anyway. That’s true because there could have been – from my point of view – four, five, six or seven more players involved because they played an outstanding season in so many moments.

“But of course the players in the Premier League make the decision, so that’s then the most honest competition of the year.

“Even when the players don’t watch all the games, they probably watch, most of the time, the summaries, so it is even more special when you come in a team of the year.

“As a defender then it’s mostly of the players they played against and felt obviously quite uncomfortable and thought, ‘It was not easy today’. That’s cool and so deserved.”

Klopp added: “Mo would have deserved it again. He’s up there again with the top scorers, scored so many incredibly important goals for us.

“Gini plays an incredible season, 100 per cent. Hendo [Jordan Henderson] is in a shape where if they would vote today then he would probably be in and stuff like that, so it’s good.

“But all the other players obviously deserve it as well. It is the players’ decision, so we have to accept it, but I’m really happy for them.”