Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has been criticized by his countryman Didi Hamann.

The ex-Liverpool midfielder has laid into the Reds coach, after the Anfield club were beaten 3-0 by Wolves in the Premier League.

Klopp was tetchy in his post-match press conference, refusing to answer a question from journalist James Pearce.

"I found it very strange and petty and what he has to realise is that James Pearce and his family get bombarded with abusive messages since that incident because Klopp didn't answer a question," Hamann told talkSPORT.

"It was a perfectly good question to ask him and I think the least James deserves is an apology.

"Liverpool is a club that is based on respect and I think someone has to tell [Klopp] 'This is Liverpool Football Club and you can't do this'. We have campaigns against bullying and you can't have the Liverpool manager behave the way he did. I feel nobody at the club has the bottle to tell him, which I think they should.

"He might say 'Well, if I got a few players then maybe I wouldn't have to answer these questions', so there might be a bit of a standoff. The way things are going at the moment, these things don't help him and they certainly don't help the club, which is above everything else. You can't have a situation where the manager disrespects a very well respected journalist like he did to James Pearce."