Legendary wing-back Dani Alves has detailed how close he came to joining Liverpool in 2006 before eventually moving to Barcelona from Sevilla in 2008.
The Paris Saint-Germain star was impressing in Andalusia when the Reds were interested. And according to Alves, the deal was close to going through, per FourFourTwo:
"I pretty much had an agreement with Liverpool. But, for whatever reason, it didn't happen at the last moment and I really don't know why as I wasn't the one conducting the negotiations.
"I had other people representing me back then.