It's more sinister than that. There is simply no way that these comments from Klopp (VAR, state owned, etc) are not encouraged and sanctioned by the very top people at Liverpool. It is all part of their strategy, feeding the negative narratives about City for both off field reasons (a constant campaign of pressure on our ownership and finances) and on field reasons (VAR etc, trying to influence referees).
Although the comments about VAR are so palpably ridiculous that hopefully they will backfire.
Obviously it's also true that Klopp says these things because he's an utter ****.