Michail Antonio, the West Ham forward, shed light on the heated exchange that occurred between Mo Salah and Jurgen Klopp during Liverpool’s recent stalemate with West Ham.
The encounter, which ended in a 2-2 draw, was overshadowed by a sideline dispute involving Klopp and Salah.
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Salah, who did not start the match, was seen in a heated moment with his coach as he was about to enter the game in the 79th minute.
This draw has left Liverpool trailing the Premier League frontrunners Arsenal by five points, in addition to their exit from the Europa League.
Antonio, while on his Footballer’s Football Podcast, offered his insights into what transpired during the altercation between the two prominent figures of Liverpool.
“Basically – this is not inside information, nobody has told me anything – but what I have heard is what the boys have been talking about on the training ground (at West Ham),” said the forward.
“As the (Liverpool) players come on, Klopp always gives them a big hug and says ‘good luck’, but when Mo came on he walked in a different direction and was doing his shinpads and stuff like that.
“Klopp has put his hand out to him and his hand was there for a bit and as Mo stopped doing what he was doing, he just slapped his (Klopp’s) hand as a high five.
“Obviously Klopp didn’t like that and he was like, ‘Do you want to sit back down?’, basically saying, ‘Do you want to go on?’. And nobody has told me what Mo said back.”
Antonio added that he believes the incident in the game has been blown out of proportion.
“It’s one of those things because they (Liverpool) are not performing it’s going to be amplified,” he said.
“Knowing who they are and how well they’ve done this season and basically the title could be drifting away from them, tensions are going to be high, there is going to be a lot of frustration and I feel like they are only human so these things are bound to happen.”
