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ThisNameIsMine nominates Liverpool, who missed out on Michael Laudrup in 1983, and one Cristiano Ronaldo 20 years later.
“We had a wage scale and we weren’t paying the sort of salary he wanted,” Gerard Houllier said of Ronaldo. “I agreed with not breaking the wage structure. I thought it would cause problems in our dressing room.” Houllier signed Harry Kewell instead.
Props to Abhishek Mallik and VigoTheCarpathian, who point out that Blackburn also missed out on Roy Keane and Christophe Dugarry, along with Zidane and later Lewandowski. They also nearly got Sven-Goran Eriksson in as manager in the late 90s; it seems they could have gone the full Lazio.
Written by Niall McVeigh
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/football/live/2020/jan/10/premier-league-team-news-transfer-latest-and-more-weekend-countdown-live under the title “Premier League team news, transfer latest and more: weekend countdown – live!”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
