Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Romelu Lukaku's furious war of words in 2021 Milan derby

Romelu Lukaku and Zlatan Ibrahimovic were involved in one of the fiercest moments that the Derby della Madonnina has seen in recent years when they went toe-to-toe in January 2021.

Despite having shared a dressing room together at Manchester United, there was clearly no love lost between the pair when tensions boiled over at the San Siro during a Coppa Italia quarter-final.

Ibrahimovic had fired the Rossoneri into the lead in the 31st minute, before things got out of hand before half-time with the Swede clearly winding up his opposite number nine.

Truly tense scenes quickly followed with Ibrahimovic and Lukaku squaring up to one another, leading to both sets of teammates having to separate the two star strikers from each other.

The situation was made all the more remarkable by the fact that there wasn't a boisterous crowd stuffed into the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza as there would ordinarily be for a Milan derby.

Rather, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, fans watching on at home were given extraordinary insight into a true clash of the titans with Ibrahimovic and Lukaku's war of words largely made audible.

And with Italian Football TV trawling through the footage and listening very carefully to what was said between the Inter and Milan stars, a transcript of what was actually said started to take shape.

By their estimations, the heated conversation between Lukaku and Ibrahimovic - one of the most head-turning cases of on-pitch drama that we've seen in a long time - went as follows:

Ibrahimovic: “You are a donkey”

Lukaku: “Let’s go inside you b****, we’re gonna see”

Ibrahimovic: “Call your mother, do your voodoo s***”

Lukaku: “F*** you & your wife you little b****”

Lukaku can then be heard saying as the players walked towards the