I don't think Liverpool manager needed to do what he did in infamous row - people got the wrong impression

Raheem Sterling and Brendan Rodgers weren’t always on the same wavelength at Liverpool - and fractures in their working manager-player relationship were there for all to see a number of years before the forward left for Manchester City in a £49m deal.

Perhaps training ground confrontations between two figures at any given football club are to be expected; they’re part and parcel of football. Words are exchanged and tensions momentarily rise, but the situation is eventually resolved and all parties move on.

Only this heated exchange in particular has never been able to be forgotten.

Having made his Liverpool debut the previous season, Sterling was one of a number of young academy players who were included in Rodgers ' travelling squad to America for pre-season due to a number of his senior stars taking part in EURO 2012.

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This was the Northern Irishman’s first pre-season in charge of the club, having left Swansea City to replace Kenny Dalglish in charge at Anfield, and there was an intention on Rodgers’ part to assert his authority early into his tenure.

Unfortunately for the duo, the bust-up was caught on camera thanks to the FOX documentary Being:Liverpool.

The now Leicester boss had been telling Sterling to both ‘use your brain’ and ‘stay on your feet’, before threatening to send him home after taking issue with his response.

“This is for the young players and I need you to pay attention," Rodgers said. “Your attitude needs to improve in your work, OK? You (Sterling) say ‘steady’ to me again when I say something to you and you’ll be