Former Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers has spoken out about his frustration at failing to sign Alexis Sanchez from Barcelona in 2014. The Reds planned to sign Sanchez as part of the deal that saw Luis Suarez move to the Catalan giants.
Suarez did end up moving to the Camp Nou while Sanchez chose a move to Arsenal over a move to the Reds.
Liverpool came close to winning the Premier League title for the first time in history during the 2013/14 season and Rodgers feels that not being able to find a replacement for Suarez was what prevented him from failing to make the club Premier League winners.
He told TalkSport: “We felt like Luis [Suarez] was going to move on and we needed to get a world-class operator to go like-for-like.
“We finished second in the league playing a great level of football. Players were flexible in how they could play and then it was about trying to make that next step. And for that we needed to get a replacement. And we deemed Sanchez to be that one.”
