Liverpool failed in an audacious move for Martin Odegaard before he joined Real Madrid at the age of 16.
The Norwegian starlet is finally starting to blossom in his latest loan spell at Real Sociedad, five years after making the move to the Bernabeu.
Life could have been very different if the then-teenager had gone to Anfield when Brendan Rodgers was still manager, as revealed by his former boss at Vitesse Arnhem, Leonid Slutsky.
'His time at Vitesse has been very important,' the former Hull boss told Netavissen.