Jurgen Klopp remains relaxed about Michael Edwards’ Liverpool future.
Edwards’ contract as sporting director at Anfield is due to expire next summer and has yet to commit to a new deal, prompting speculation he could leave.
The 41-year-old has been widely credited with helping transform the Reds’ recruitment strategy since his arrival from Tottenham over a decade ago.
However Klopp, who has worked alongside Edwards during his own six-year tenure, is refusing to panic over potential uncertainty around his colleague.
He said: “We’ve worked together six years.
“I don’t think I’ve had a different sporting director but it’s not my decision to do these kinds of things so I don’t know.
“You have to ask other people about this kind of things.
“But open contracts [talks], we usually don’t discuss that. We will not start that with the sporting director.
“That’s interesting, I never spoke before about the contract of a sporting director.
“From my point of view, if it’s [expiring] next year, which I didn’t know exactly, then I will think about that next year and not now.”
Newcastle United have emerged as potential suitors for Edwards following their recent £300 million takeover by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund.
But Klopp insists that only the Premier League’s chief executive Richard Masters can answer questions about the impact of the controversial buyout.
He added: “Did anything ever happen when I, or somebody else, said anything to the Premier League?
“For everything you want to do, whatever direction it is going, you need 14 votes.
“I can’t remember for one thing that was good for football in general, not only for some clubs, which went through.
“Don’t ask me about the reputation of the Premier League.
“You all live in this country, you are part of ‘the business’ as well. If you think there is a damage to the reputation, write it without my saying, please.
“If you get in contact with Richard Masters, send him my regards because I never have contact with him. Never is not right, maybe once or twice.
“But he’s the only person I think who can explain how it could happen and in the end, we will see what it will damage or not.
“It’s really not for me to say that. It’s about other people.”