Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher has suggested that the feud between Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah which reared its head at Burnley had been “gathering for months".
“The more issues fester, the more you are parking the problem for a later date,” Carragher said in The Telegraph.
“The disagreement earlier this season between Liverpool strikers Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah comes into the same category.
“There is no way Mane lost his head solely because he did not receive a few passes against Burnley. His frustration will have been gathering for months, ensuring it only needed a trigger to bring it into the open.
“Jurgen Klopp is not a manager who allows his players to dwell on any negative issue so I strongly suspect he will have discussed it with both players.
“Ironically, I felt Mane was too unselfish in the Champions League game against Napoli in midweek, trying to pass to Salah when he should have been going alone.
“So long as these disagreements are isolated and issues swiftly resolved they do not cause a problem.
“Where managers do become wary is if cliques form, sides are taken and personalities clash to such an extreme it becomes detrimental to the unity and spirit within the camp.
“The Liverpool managers I worked under would never let that happen.”