Mario Balotelli may have finally escaped his Anfield nightmare but that has not stopped his agent speaking his mind about Jurgen Klopp.
Mario Balotelli’s agent, Mino Raiola, says he stands by his criticism of Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp.
The super-agent caused a storm amid Liverpool fans recently after branding Klopp “a piece of s***” in an interview with La Gazzetta dello Sport after the German refused to consider the Italian striker for selection following his return from an unsuccessful loan spell at AC Milan (below).
Balotelli completed a free transfer to Ligue 1 high-flyers Nice at the end of the transfer window, but Raiola remains unrelenting in his criticism of the former Dortmund coach.
“At the end of the day [Balotelli was] a player of Liverpool and you should treat him with respect,” Raiola (below) said in an exclusive interview with Jim White, broadcast at 12pm on Talksport. “But [Klopp] didn’t do that.
“You need to play a little bit but he never considered him. I don’t like him as a trainer at all. I don’t need to go to Klopp to do business. If Klopp wants a player that I represent then he has to talk to me.
“I have no problem talking to Liverpool tomorrow to talk about one of my players. If I am afraid of speaking my mind then I lose my power.”
Raiola is notoriously outspoken and pulls no punches in interviews, so Klopp is likely to take his latest tirade with a significant pinch of salt.
Balotelli will now be focussing on rehabilitating his flagging career at Nice and will be hoping to prove Klopp wrong for not having confidence in him.
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