As a football fan, it may be hard to digest that some of your club's players hate each other, but that has been the case with Manchester United, Arsenal and Real Madrid over the years.
Having a bit of an argument on the pitch is one (brilliant) thing – think Kieron Dyer and Lee Bowyer's 2005 clash – but some teammates just don't get along.
We looked at 11 feuds between players who had to train together every day and play at the highest level every Saturday, despite hating each other's guts.
It's probably easier to count how many people in football Diouf hasn't made enemies with, but his feud with Carragher is particularly excellent.
“I arrived for pre-season anticipation of my first look at the players who would make us title winners,” Carragher wrote in his autobiography. “I returned home the same evening depressed.
'Do you remember choosing sides for a game of football at school? We do this at Liverpool for the five-a-side. Within a few weeks, Diouf was 'last choice'.”
He added: “His attitude disgusted me.” And in 2015 he told Scouse Bird Problems: “The worst (player he played with) has to be El Hadji-Diouf.
“I actually really enjoyed playing against him because you could kick him – [you] You can't kick your own players!”
Diouf has responded on several occasions, calling Carragher a “damn loser”, “a sh*t” and “the biggest turkey on the field”.
“For me, the truth is that I never liked Nasri and I will never like this man,” Frimpong told The Athletic in 2019. “Even if he gives me $5 billion, I still won't like him.”
Frimpong's animosity towards Nasri stems from an incident after the then 19-year-old was sent off in his second league match for Arsenal in a 2-0 defeat at Liverpool.
After the match, Nasri stood up in the dressing room and made his feeling clear that the defeat was all Frimpong's fault.
Nasri later called Frimpong after the midfielder took a swipe at the France international on social media following his departure to Manchester City.
“I picked up the phone and then it was Nasri on the phone threatening me and telling me that if he sees me, this is that. I said to him: 'I'm not one of the players who is afraid of you. If you want us to solve it as men, we can solve it as men.'
“To be honest, when he left Arsenal, I could tell him what I actually thought about him because he was there, so I could basically let him know my feelings. So I just told him that I don't like him, that I don't respect him and I will never respect him as a professional player.”
When they were on the pitch together, the pair scored a goal every 84.8 minutes, but the dislike goes back to Cole's England debut, when the striker replaced Sheringham after his offer of a handshake was rejected.
“I'd rather sit down and have a cup of tea with Neil Ruddock, who broke my leg in two places in 1996, than Teddy Sheringham,” said Cole.
The German duo, who started working together at Bayern Munich, at least managed to maintain their professionalism on the field.
But miraculously, Effenberg included an entire chapter in his autobiography entitled 'What Lothar Matthaus knows about football'. A blank page followed.
During a team night out in Barcelona, Riise refused Bellamy's request to sing karaoke.
As a result, the Bellamy entered Riise's hotel room and hit the Norwegian on the butt with a golf club. A 'blow', as Bellamy describes it in his autobiography.
Both players went on to score in a famous 2-1 win at Camp Nou, with Bellamy's celebration a particular highlight.
For some, Robben's style made him a frustrating player to watch – and work with, at least if Lewandowski's experience is anything to go by.
After arriving at Bayern, the Poland international regularly became visibly frustrated by Robben's selfishness and struggled to connect, both on and off the pitch.
Lehmann did not like playing second fiddle and fell out with Oliver Kahn at international level as they battled Germany for the No. 1 shirt.
And Almunia, widely regarded as one of the nicest in the Arsenal dressing room, said he had no idea why Lehmann was so hostile towards him.
But the German made numerous comments about Almunia in the press, at one point saying: “Sitting on the bench behind someone who only started playing at the age of 30 is not funny.”
Romario was re-signed by Vasco De Gama in 1999 to partner Edmundo in attack, but the damage had already been done.
After Edmundo replaced his old friend in the Brazil squad for the 1998 World Cup, Romario posted a huge cartoon of him on the toilet door of his bar in Rio, a prank that did not go down well.
They argued through the press, but even started competing for women in a nightclub. “We arrived at the club and there I was in one corner and he was in the other; I was prettier, I had the talk. So we started to clash,” Edmundo once said.
READ: Edmundo & Romario: The great Brazilian strikers who hated each other's guts
The feud between Touré and Gallas ran so deep that the two did not even communicate when they were on the field together.
It was reported that the cause was Gallas' famous sit-down protest at the end of a 2-2 draw with Birmingham, but Toure says this goes back a long way.
However, the Ivorian has refused to reveal the real reason, saying: “If we start talking about that, it will be a big story.”
One of life's true mysteries.
We couldn't leave Zlatan out of this, and his feud with Van Der Vaart is the best in a long list he's had over the years.
Teammates at Ajax, the pair played against each other in an international friendly, with Van Der Vaart claiming Ibrahimovic had deliberately injured him.
'He claimed in the papers that I had deliberately injured him. What kind of shit was that?” wrote the Swede in his autobiography.
The pair had a meeting with manager Ronald Koeman and Ibrahimovic lost it and threatened to break Van Der Vaart's legs if he did not apologise.
Not wanting to be exposed by John Terry and Wayne Bridge, Lopez refused Serie A's own handshake after Icardi married the ex-wife of former Barcelona striker Wanda Nara shortly after their own divorce was confirmed.
Icardi now has the names of Lopez's three children with Nara tattooed on his arm, which the 34-year-old is understandably not too keen on.
“I don't feel comfortable having my children in those photos,” Lopez told Sky Sports in 2016. “The children are my strength and they know I will do everything I can to protect them because they mean the world to me.”
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