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Kieran Trippier reveals his life at Atletico Madrid including his nickname 'Rooney', how he is better than last season at Tottenham and why there is no one better to learn from than manager Diego Simeone

Kieran Trippier had hardly finished his first answer when Diego Costa bounded along the Anfield corridor towards him like a disruptive schoolchild, fake coughing at the hoard of journalists flanking him, and interrupted his team-mate with cries of ‘Rooney! Rooney!’

Trippier laughed and rolled his eyes with a little shake of the head as Costa skipped off around a corner. ‘He’s crazy,’ said Trippier. ‘He calls me that all the time. It’s the first name that comes into his head.’

Costa’s nickname for the Atletico Madrid right-back comes from the slight resemblance he has to former England and Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney.