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'I was so glad to have left Liverpool – the manager wouldn't answer my question'

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The Reds believed they had pulled off a masterstroke when signing Sahin on loan from Real Madrid in 2012, yet he lasted fewer than six months at the club.Liverpool face Real Madrid in the Champions League on Tuesday, with Sahin having played for both clubs. After returning to his former club Dortmund on loan, Sahin delivered a blunt assessment of what had gone wrong for him at Liverpool."I did not fail at Liverpool," Sahin explained to Spanish outlet AS in 2013, as per the Guardian.



But I do not play behind the strikers.READ MORE: Trent Alexander-Arnold sums up Liverpool feelings in one word before Real Madrid clashREAD MORE: Arne Slot makes Liverpool team-mate comparison in passionate defence of Florian Wirtz"I talked to him and asked him why he was playing me there. I was young and I thought I knew everything.

I was sure I was in the right, 100 per cent, but he told me to go, so I went."So, the next day I came in and I thought 'OK, maybe it's the end for me here', you know? But he came in and it was like nothing had happened."It was a moment for me to realise that I would have him on my side even when I was in the wrong.