My dream Liverpool transfer was blocked by jealous manager despite pay cut promise

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So I was like, 'Yeah, brilliant. Latest Reds news and more on our dedicated Facebook page"But I think there was an element of Gerard Houllier being jealous of the fact that I could go and play for Liverpool and I could go back there and be happy.

Liverpool were like, 'Hang about, you've just changed the goalposts.'"Anyway, the deal fell through and I ended up sitting in the reserves for the rest of the season. I mean, it got to the point where they had to move me off the reserve team pitch because I was booting balls into the middle of their training sessions.You can tune into brand new episodes of In The Mixer on Spotify and Apple Podcasts!"When I was supposed to be going back to Liverpool, I said to them with the loan deal, 'Well, if we can make it work, chop my wages in half.' I was like, 'I'll take less.

Just let me go back and play.'"They were like, 'No, no, we can't do that.' That was Villa saying that. I was like, 'Yeah, you can.