Roma captain Francesco Totti admitted yesterday that his relationship with club coach Luis Enrique started out badly, although he says the pair have now patched up their differences.

Totti was widely rumoured to have been at loggerheads with Spaniard Enrique soon after the former Barcelona youth team coach took over at Roma.

Enrique left Totti on the bench for the first leg of Roma’s Europa League qualifying tie against Slovan Bratislava and then substituted the emblematic captain during the second leg.

Roma were knocked out by the Slovak minnows and Totti made no attempt to hide his frustrations at the time.

The spat led to Enrique being jeered by the club’s fans and local reporters speculating that he was in line for the sack, before the new Serie A season had even begun.

And although Totti admits they got off on the wrong foot he says all has now been resolved.

“I get on well with Luis Enrique, at first things didn’t go well but now we have a good relationship,” said Totti.

“Maybe at the beginning we didn’t understand each other, I don’t know why. I didn’t understand what I was doing wrong at that time.

“It was said that I was at the centre of the project but then I found myself on the bench.

“Either I didn’t understand or I was being made fun of. Then I had a chat with the coach and things were ironed out.”

And just to demonstrate his point that all is well with Enrique, Totti compared the Spaniard to a couple of popular recent Roma coaches, Zdenek Zeman and Luciano Spalletti.

“I’d compare him to Spalletti and Zeman for his attacking style because he thinks more about making his team play than he does about the opposition, and training sessions are hard.”