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Apparently this player was keen on a move to Liverpool but Phil Thompson advised Houllier against it, and the deal fell through...

http://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/latest-news/portuguese-star-keen-on-reds-move

didnt rafa want to buy him?

If I'm not wrong, the club wanted to buy proven players at the time and hence passed up the opportunity to buy him. I think Bar is right!

This is just one.

The worse was passing up on anelka and paying 10m on diouf and 5m on diao and another 6-7m on bruno cheyrou.

wtf.

Heard that ages ago. also read thommos auto and he reckons him and houklier laughed when utd paid twelve mill. six years later utd sold him for eighty mill.

Thing is he may have not made it at lfc. he struggled at first for utd. top class player though

at the time i remember people saying he was an lfc fan and he had told his family and friends he was moving to lfc. obviously we hesitated and apparently utd paid his agent a huge fee. that might just have been bitter lfc fans though. anyway like him or loathe him he is an incredible player. and his head and shoulders above 99.9% of players.

he got of lightly he must of been mighty relieved if we had got him we would of played him out of position probably at left back and that would of been the end of him

I heard that story years ago. But thats football and life you can't look back and say what if. Lets get the next ronaldo thats what matters

i think we may just have him and people may disagree but sterlings got massive amounts of ability and i am made up rodgers has given him his chance

i love the boy and think his going to be a very good player but cant see him coming anywhere close to ronaldo. to be fair there hasnt been many players that are as good as him (ever)