| Liverpool star thought he was in Champions League final squad – but error cost him £200k |
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“I remember running in after the last training session and thinking, ‘please be in’," he recalled on the Undr The Cosh podcast. And he exclaimed "f***ing hell" when he spotted his name in amongst the 18 listed.
It was £100k to lose it and £200k to win it, and I was thinking f***ing hell, that's a massive amount of money, because I weren't on that much money at the time.
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"The other part of that was me thinking 'f***ing hell that's a nice lovely bonus that either way'.
You're a young lad, I've come from thinking last year thinking I'm gonna be in the Championship with Coventry being on decent-ish money but nowhere near that sum of money."
Liverpool of course went on to beat Milan on penalties after their miraculous comeback from three goals down, meaning Warnock did indeed miss out on a £200k payday.
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