Michail Antonio has claimed what was said by Jurgen Klopp towards Mohamed Salah during their touchline spat at West Ham United - but understands why there was a disagreement between the Liverpool duo.

Klopp and Salah set tongues wagging during Saturday's 2-2 draw at the Hammers when they were involved in an altercation as the Egyptian prepared to be brought on from the bench, prompting Reds striker Darwin Nunez to intervene.

The Liverpool boss later downplayed the incident although Salah left the London Stadium stating "there will be fire" if he commented on the tiff.

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And Antonio, who scored West Ham's equaliser at the weekend to further damage the Reds' fading Premier League title hopes, has shared what he understands was Klopp's message to Salah during the argument.

“Basically - this is not inside information, nobody has told me anything - but what I have heard is what the boys have been talking about on the training ground (at West Ham)," said the forward.

"As the (Liverpool) players come on, Klopp always gives them a big hug and says 'good luck', but when Mo came on he walked in a different direction and was doing his shinpads and stuff like that. Klopp has put his hand out to him and his hand was there for a bit and as Mo stopped doing what he was doing, he just slapped his (Klopp's) hand as a high five.

"Obviously Klopp didn’t like that and he was like, ‘do you want to sit back down?’, basically saying, 'do you want to go on?'. And nobody has told me what Mo said back."

Speaking on the Footballer's Football Podcast, Antonio believes the incident has been blown out of proportion.

"It's one of those things because they (Liverpool) are not performing it's going to be amplified," he said. "Knowing who they are and how well they've done this season and basically the title could be drifting away from them, tensions are going to be high, there is going to be a lot of frustration and I feel like they are only human so these things are bound to happen."