Back in the summer of 2013, many outlets reported Lorenzo Melgarejo was leaving Benfica to join Liverpool.
The player had impressed during a loan at Paços de Ferreira the season before, and as covered by Goal, he had been linked with moves to Sampdoria, Arsenal, and Fenerbahce, before agreeing to join Liverpool.
The player was to sign for the Premier League side on a one-year loan deal, with an option for a permanent transfer that would cost €10m.
But despite the claims of the Liverpool move being official in the ‘next few hours’, at the time, it never happened, and Melgarejo ended up signing for Russian side Kuban Krasnodar in a €5m deal.
The player has given an interview to Paraguayan TV show Sin Falta, and revealed that even he believed he would be joining Liverpool in that transfer window.
“From Benfica I was about to go to Liverpool, but I ended up going to Russia,” Melgarejo told Sin Falta.
“My head was already at Liverpool, everything was, and it collapsed in the last moment.”
Melgarejo spent three seasons at Kuban Krasnodar and left to join Spartak Moscow for €4.5m last summer. The 26-year-old is now just a squad player, having scored two league goals this season.
