Liverpool teammates Milos Kerkez and Conor Bradley have revisited their first encounter as opponents in a hilarious exchange

Milos Kerkez has joked about the time he 'battered' Liverpool teammate Conor Bradley during a youth match when they played for different clubs in 2021.

Kerkez joined the Reds from Premier League side Bournemouth in the summer of 2025, but before his move to England in 2023, he spent time in Milan's youth academy. Bradley, meanwhile, joined Liverpool's youth setup in 2019 and has been a regular with the first team in recent years.

During the 2021/22 season, Liverpool faced the Italian side in the UEFA Youth League, a competition that runs in parallel to the Champions League. In a game hosted at the Reds' academy, a team including Bradley, Stefan Bajcetic and Tyler Morton, among others, edged a narrow 1-0 win.

On the opposite side was a young Kerkez, and the Hungary international has joked about the encounter in a recent video shared by the club, in which the players raced against the clock to gift thousands of pounds to Liverpool supporters.

In the car, as the pair, along with goalkeeper Alisson Becker, made their way to meet supporters, they couldn't help but troll each other. Kerkez suggested that Bradley needed to get rid of his hair and go bald before referencing the time they faced each other as opponents.

"You remember when I played against you with AC Milan?" he asked Bradley. "I was bald mate, and I battered you."

Bradley savagely responded: "You battered me? Lad, I sent you 40 miles in the air."

The Liverpool right back then earned a laugh from Alisson as he showed his teammates a clip in which he went sliding into a tackle against Kerkez, sending his opponent flying. Of course, big tackles have become synonymous with Bradley's style of play over the years, with a number of big challenges against the likes of Kylian Mbappe.

Unfortunately for Liverpool, Bradley remains sidelined with the knee injury sustained in a 0-0 draw against Arsenal earlier this year. The defender was involved in a collision with Gabriel Martinelli and has since been undergoing rehabilitation for the long-term injury.

It has been speculated that the 23-year-old could be ready for a return in mid-December. That said, caution will remain, as it was initially anticipated that Giovanni Leoni would've made his long-awaited return by now after sustaining an ACL injury last season, but the Italian is yet to make a comeback.

Kerkez, meanwhile, has now gone away on international duty with Hungary. It is not yet clear whether compatriot Dominik Szoboszlai will be fit enough to play alongside him as he continues to manage an ongoing fitness concern.