Jurgen Klopp will speak with Virgil van Dijk ahead of his Southampton return.
Liverpool’s trip to the South Coast on Sunday could be the first time that Van Dijk faces his former club since sealing a £75 million transfer last month.
The Holland international is expected to receive a hostile reception at St Mary’s due to the events which preceded his eventual move to Anfield earlier this year.
Last summer, Reds officials were forced to publicly apologise to Southampton abandon their original pursuit of Van Dijk amid accusations of ‘tapping up’.
In anticipation of a first meeting with Mauricio Pellegrino’s side, Klopp revealed he plans discuss the potential powder keg atmosphere with the 26-year-old.
He said: “For sure, I will talk to Virgil about it.
“With other players I didn’t talk about it because I didn’t know or look where they were coming from. I will talk to him of course.
“We are all human beings, we are influenced by circumstances. It will not be a normal game, how can it be?
“It was a special story most of the time really positive and then the end not that positive.
“I think how football fans are they want to disturb everything we try to do to help their team and they will whistle. Is it nice? I don’t think so.
“Will it have influence? I don’t think so but we will see but we cannot make it too big and I don’t make it too big.
“We really think much more about the football game and what we have to do and not about how we can avoid different situations from outside because we don’t have influence.
“We have to accept it how it is: loud, not nice maybe, but still we have to play football.
“We have to go there and play football and nothing else. I don’t think anyone at Southampton will say we’ve stolen him or something.
“It was a very public deal and the numbers, even when they are not 100 per cent right, are I think ok so maybe they are really happy and they say ‘Thank you for all the money we have now’ – or it could be the other way around.”