Jurgen Klopp brushes aside Mino Raiola comments that Liverpool manager is a ‘piece of s**t’ and a ‘bad trainer’
JURGEN KLOPP has responded to super-agent Mino Raiola's insults last week that the German manager was a "piece of s**t" and a "bad trainer".
The Liverpool manager brushed aside Raiola's barbs - which also included the suggestion that Klopp showed a "lack of respect" towards his client Mario Balotelli, who joined Nice after a nightmare spell at Anfield.
But Klopp has given the mega-rich agent, who also represents Manchester United's Paul Pogba and Zlatan Ibrahimovic, short shrift.
When asked about Raiola at a press conference today, Klopp said: "I'm not interested in things like this. He can say what he wants."
Klopp denied he made troubled Italian Balotelli an outcast, adding: "We did not isolate him.
“I’m not interested in things like this. It’s a free world, he can say what he wants. There’s no problem.
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“It’s part of the business. It’s all good.”
In the same breath as criticising Klopp, Raiola said he would negotiate with Liverpool again.
He said: “If Klopp wants a player that I represent and he wants to talk to me, good.
“If he doesn’t want to talk to me then I can say to my player: ‘he doesn’t want to talk to me, you can choose another agent or go with a lawyer’.
“I will never be standing in the middle of the interest of my player but it doesn’t mean I have to shut up when I see things are not being done in a good way.”
Raiola has been aiming swipes at anyone and everyone recently - and today called Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola "boring" and said he "didn't have the balls" to sit down with him and talk.