Mario Balotelli’s agent Mino Raiola has branded Jurgen Klopp ‘a piece of s***” in an x-rated attack on the Liverpool manager.
Balotelli secured his long-awaited exit from Anfield earlier this week with a free transfer to French side Nice following an unsuccessful two-year spell.
During his Reds exile, the former Italy international was forced to train with the club’s academy set-up, far away from the first-team at Melwood.
And Raiola has taken aim at Klopp, who made no secret of Balotelli’s surplus to Liverpool, for his handling of the 26-year-old’s departure.
“In the end, the higher-ups at Liverpool admitted that Klopp was wrong,” he told Gazzetta dello Sport.
“I’m not trying to judge him as a coach – although, for me, he’s not a good coach – but he didn’t understand that Balotelli is, whatever else, a person.
“Mario has been exemplary. He never complained about training alone. To say that it was wrong of Klopp would be an understatement.
“He was a piece of s*** about it.”