Team-mates who disliked each other

JPRouve

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You obviously know this, but I'll mention it, maybe others will find it amusing. Effenberg cherished Matthäus so much that he even dedicated a chapter in his autobiography to him. It was called "What Lothar Matthäs knows about football" and consisted of a single blank page.
Lizarazu said that after he punched Matthäus, Effenberg told the club that they shouldn't fine Lizarazu and that if they did he would pay it himself.
 

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Luis Enrique and Quique Flores have been fighting for years.
Their bad relationship can still be appreciated today when they face.
Apparently (and based in different articles) when they played for Madrid they were close friends and spent a lot of time playing PC fútbol (a prehistoric version of football manager).
However, in his last season Luis Enrique accused Quique of being the mole who had warned Valdano of his signing for Barcelona.
After that, in a hotel, while they were playing cards with Michel and Cañizares, someone said "here there is a snitch." Luis Enrique immediately pointed out to Quique starting an argument.
It turned out that Quique had married, and each team mate had given 5000 pesetas (the currency before the euro) so Luis Enrique right there claimed Quique for his money. He took it out of his wallet and threw it to the floor.:lol:

Another well-known one is Hugo Sánchez and Michel, who did not speak to each other in years, however it never affected their good connection in the field.
 

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Team mates having bust ups necessarily doesn't mean they hate each other
 
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Effenberg accused Matthäus of asking to be subbed just to get some applause in the last minutes of that 1999 final. It obviously wasn't the cause of the conflict between them, but it seemed to be the final straw. They're probably too feisty and too self-centered not to get in a fight with each other while condemned in a closed space.
I’m pretty sure Matthäus and Klinsmann didn’t get along either. Didn’t Matthäus not play at Euro 96 because Klinsi was captain and there were problems between them?
 

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Yoann Gourcuff and Franck Ribéry.


YOANN GOURCUFF could be forgiven for thinking the whole world is against him. Having been ignored by many of his team-mates for the past three weeks, France’s mercurial misfit saw his unhappy World Cup come to an end even more prematurely than that of his colleagues when he was sent off for an elbow in the first half against South Africa yesterday.

Trudging down the tunnel, Bordeaux’s talented playmaker looked dejected, but he must also have felt some relief his personal trials in South Africa were over.
The rift between Gourcuff and several high-profile players, including Nicolas Anelka and Franck Ribery, was the trigger to Les Bleus’ dramatic implosion over the last few days.

Gourcuff is seemingly from a different mould to the others. Intelligent, polite and well-spoken, the 23-year-old does not fit in with what many in France are calling the “spoilt brat” generation. He enjoyed a comfortable childhood in Brittany where his father, Christian, the respected coach of Lorient, ensured he received a rounded education. Clean-cut and good-looking, he is an excellent tennis player, and counts the former Olympic swimming star turned celebrity Laure Manaudou in his social circle.

Most of France’s squad grew up in much tougher conditions in the poorest suburbs. Ribery was raised in a run-down council estate in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Eric Abidal lived in one of Lyon’s most deprived areas, while Thierry Henry, William Gallas and Anelka all spent their childhoods in so-called quartiers difficiles outside Paris.
It is no coincidence these are the players who have frozen Gourcuff out in South Africa. They resent the way the French press builds Gourcuff up as Zinedine Zidane’s successor. They envy the positive attention he receives from the media. They regard him as arrogant and pretentious because he reads books and expresses himself eloquently when analysing a game.

Raymond Domenech wanted to build his attack around the 2008/09 French Player of the Year, but several senior players objected, pressurising the coach to restore Henry or Florent Malouda to the line-up. In the opening game against Uruguay, Anelka and Ribery made their stance abundantly clear by refusing to pass to Gourcuff.
 

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Pretty sure someone must have already mentioned but Salah and Mane. No matter how they both try to dress it up, they are definitely jealous of each other and don't wish the best for one another.
 

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Effenberg accused Matthäus of asking to be subbed just to get some applause in the last minutes of that 1999 final. It obviously wasn't the cause of the conflict between them, but it seemed to be the final straw. They're probably too feisty and too self-centered not to get in a fight with each other while condemned in a closed space.
Great anecdotes thanks!
 

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Apparently, nothing actually happened. Thanks, media.

Also, Bridge and Perroncel weren't even a couple then.



Classic City, always stupid.
They weren't teammates, that's true. For nothing actually happened? Bridge didn't think so, to the point of quitting NT and ignoring the handshake on next Chelsea vs City game. But who knows. Maybe Bridge just read the media too much, without knowing what actually happened.
 
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Sheringham is a complete tosspot of a human being. Everyone hates him.
I think the fact that he supported West Ham as a kid and developed a love for Spurs after signing for them means you are a bit biased on this one. Comes across alright when he’s a pundit.
 

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Sheringham is a complete tosspot of a human being. Everyone hates him.
Rumour has it he's a dickhead, even a couple of people have run into him on here and say the same thing.

I don't know how true that all is though.
 

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I think the fact that he supported West Ham as a kid and developed a love for Spurs after signing for them means you are a bit biased on this one. Comes across alright when he’s a pundit.
I didn't even know he supported West Ham or that he has any love for Spurs (he fecked off the first chance he had to join a bigger club so it can't be that real).

I've got family members who are Spurs fans, being Spurs fan (or fan of anyone) does not make you a twat.

I used to work in a bar that Sheringham frequented when he was a Pompey player and that's why I know he's a complete and utter twat.