Former Liverpool striker Mario Ballotelli has revealed that he have spoke to Jurgen Klopp only once during his time at Anfield before making a deadline day move to French club Nice on a free transfer.
“Klopp doesn’t know me,” Balotelli, who returned to Liverpool in the summer after a loan spell at Milan, told Sky Sport Italia. “I was with him at Liverpool for one month and a half and I spoke with him just once. He told me that I could stay, but that I wasn’t first choice.
“He said he felt it was better if I went to play somewhere else to play well and then go back because he wanted me as a player. I said arrivederci and told him he would never see me again.
“Liverpool and AC Milan just weren’t right for me. I never made any mistakes in terms of my behaviour, there were just injuries and God decides them, I have no control. I was in two places where I wasn’t happy and this was the problem.”
