Last summer, a view was formed in the legendary former midfielder’s mind - a view that has since been fortified by events in stadiums across the continent.
Liverpool, Alonso thought, could win the Champions League.
“With this team, from the beginning I had the feeling that they could beat anyone, that in any game anything could happen, especially at Anfield [where] they were so strong,” the Spaniard revealed, after sitting down with Liverpoolfc.com in Madrid last week.
“You could see that Anfield was rocking in the European nights and they had that feeling, that belief that they could make it.