Felipe Melo insists Juventus captain Giorgio Chiellini has long had a problem with him.

Chiellini has lambasted his former Juve teammate in his new autobiography.

“He just has a problem with me because I headbutted him when we were playing against Siena," Melo told Sebastien Frey in an Instagram Live chat.

“I haven't spoken to him since and he wrote this book. I said what I needed to say. A thousand things happened at Juve and I could write a thousand books about it, far more important stuff than this.

“Chiellini never apologised to me, but that's fine, as long as he takes responsibility for what he said. He just stirred up this controversy to sell his book.

“He should've followed the example set by the great Javier Zanetti, vice-president of Inter, who never even spoke about Juve in his book. Besides which, this is really not the time to be publishing a book, when people are dying."