Marseille manager Roberto De Zerbi has said that Adrien Rabiot and Jonathan Rowe 's violent confrontation last Friday was like an "English pub fight."

Rabiot and England under-21 international Rowe were involved in a physical altercation after Marseille's 1-0 defeat at Stade Rennais that led to both players being transfer listed by the club in a public statement .

Marseille club president Pablo Longoria has since come out and labelled the altercation as " extremely violent, something I've never encountered before, " while De Zerbi has made it clear why both players will continue to be left out of the squad.

"In a workplace, we have two employees fighting like in an English pub, with a teammate on the ground because he had lost consciousness," former Brighton boss De Zerbi t

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