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Salah can see 'young, hungry' Liverpool past 'monster club' Real Madrid - Owen

The striker played for both clubs and is hugely excited ahead of this weekend's Champions League final in Kiev

Michael Owen famously missed out on the chance to play for Liverpool in a Champions League final.

While Steven Gerrard, Jamie Carragher and Co were dancing around the Ataturk Stadium in Istanbul, their friend and former team-mate was at home, reflecting on what might have been. The year of 2005 was a golden one for the Reds, but not for one of their best-ever goalscorers. "You should be here," came the text that night. But he wasn't.