Joel Matip has avoided becoming the centre of a club versus country row after the Liverpool defender was left out of Cameroon's African Nations Cup squad.
Matip was one of seven players likely to be selected for the tournament who had told coach Hugo Broos they did not want to be considered.
"It's not an easy decision but I want to concentrate on Liverpool. I want to be here," Matip told Liverpool's official website last month. "I want to focus on Liverpool and that's what I had to decide. I think I took the right decision.