12 famous players who hated each other after becoming team-mates

#3 William Gallas & Kolo Toure (Arsenal)

William Gallas and Kolo Toure were important players at Arsenal

Arsene Wenger had some quality centre-backs during his time as Arsenal manager and William Gallas and Kolo Toure were two of the best. Unfortunately for the French manager, they struggled to get along.

The tension between them was such that they hardly spoke to each other. For a team to have a good defense, it is necessary for their defenders to communicate, which never happened in this case. After a certain point, it became toxic and unbearable for the team and that's when Toure, the younger among the two, decided to leave the Gunners.

In an interview in 2010, the African player made the following statements:

"When you play with somebody and you don't even talk to each on the pitch, it's really difficult. We didn't talk to each other all. One of us had to go and it was me. I didn't want to put the team in a difficult position, so I was the one who said I wanted to go.''

Toure left for Manchester City in 2009 and Gallas too left a year later to join Arsenal's arch-rivals Tottenham Hotspur. It would have been fantastic for Arsenal had both these defenders got along well.

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#2 John Terry and Wayne Bridge (England)

West Bromwich Albion v Chelsea - Premier League

Roman Abramovich's takeover of Chelsea in 2003 brought a revolution for the London club. It saw the signing of Wayne Bridge from Southampton and the rise of John Terry as one of the best centre-backs in the Premier League then.

Terry was the captain of both Chelsea and England back then. With Manchester City desperately trying to sign him in 2009, the Englishman earned himself a new contract. Meanwhile, Wayne Bridge was doing decently well as Chelsea's left-back before leaving for Manchester City in the winter of 2009.

Bridge was in a relationship with French model Vanessa Perroncel until 2009. In the winter of 2010 rumours were circulating that Terry was having an affair with Vanessa shortly after she broke up with Wayne Bridge.

This raised a lot of questions about how morally wrong it was from Terry. Understandably, it did not go down well with Bridge.

When Chelsea faced Manchester City in 2010, Bridge refused to shake hands with Terry for that very reason. He was well supported by his City teammates as this event damaged Terry's reputation massively.

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#1 Mauro Icardi & Maxi Lopez (Argentina)

UC Sampdoria v FC Internazionale Milano - Serie A

Mauro Icardi and Maxi Lopez were team-mates at Sampdoria who apparently had a close relationship then. However, things between both the Argentine nationals went south as it involved a love triangle with Wanda Nara.

It is said that Icardi had an affair with Wanda Nara when the latter was with Maxi Lopez. It was quite a back-stabbing move from Icardi. If that wasn't enough, the Argentine striker got the names of Lopez's kids tattooed on his arm.

Later in 2014 when Icardi played for Inter Milan and Lopez played for Sampdoria, the two teams met in what was known as the "Wanda Derby." In 2016, Icardi opened up about the events:

"I was a friend of the couple, an acquaintance, and it was all very normal. After that, Wanda split up and we kept in contact, and it just happened. I fell in love, that's something you should judge solely on its own merits. But [López] was not my best friend, nothing like that. We were colleagues in Sampdoria, nothing else."

As their relationship deteriorated, Icardi and Lopez quickly went from being team-mates to hating each other. In a dramatic turn of events, Wanda Nara has now separated herself from Icardi.