Jurgen Klopp reveals huge row between Sadio Mane and Andy Robertson

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Sadio Mane and Andy Robertson were friends at Liverpool but their pair had a big row during the 2019-20 season when the Reds were trailing a game to Aston VillaSadio Mane and Andy Robertson during their time as Liverpool teammates(Image: 2022 Visionhaus)Jurgen Klopp has recalled how he stepped in to diffuse a row between Andy Robertson and Sadio Mane during the Reds' 2019-20 title-winning season.Liverpool was 1-0 down at half-time during a game against Aston Villa, when Robertson and Mane butted heads, with the Scot admitting he told Mane to "f--- off".However, Mane thought that the departing Robertson had said "f--- you", which he seemingly deemed to be far more offensive. Sadio thought I said one thing.

Usually I was the one trying to back him up, but at this point I was kind of on the back foot.“I’m thinking, ‘What did I do here?’, because usually I’m the one trying to, on the pitch, calm him down and help him.”Robertson added: “I think the gaffer had had enough. He just went, ‘Will you both shut up now!’ And then we both just sat there like good little boys, I think.”The story is recalled in a new documentary by The Anfield Wrap , titled One Of Us: Becoming Andy Robertson, and Klopp also remembered the incident, recalling the moment he walked in to end the argument.“Then I come in [and say], ‘Stop it!’" Klopp said.

"So in that moment it was more or less, ‘Can you really play together the second half on one wing or do we have to change?'”Jurgen Klopp stepped in to diffuse the situation(Image: PETER POWELL, AFP via Getty Images)In the same documentary, Klopp explained why it took a few months for Robertson to gain his trust after joining Liverpool in 2017.Robertson's transfer from Hull is now seen as one of the Premier League's best-ever bargain buys, but he was not a guaranteed start for much of his first season on Merseyside.“Signing Robbo taught me so much because the thing is you see a player, you don’t know the man, the boy that time maybe, you don’t know him," Klopp said.“So you see a player, you watch the videos, and when you saw Robbo at Hull playing and you saw his potential offensively and you saw his weaknesses, he was involved in so many goals Hull conceded on his far post.“It’s crazy. It’s like he’s not there.”He continued: “I told him, so I like everything about what you’re doing offensively and I don’t think I like anything, all the things you do defensively.“So if we agree on working on that and you pay completely in and stuff like that, then we will have a lot of fun together.”