Nuri Sahin's nightmare Liverpool stay and why Jurgen Klopp threw him out of training

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The Reds believed they had pulled off a transfer coup when signing Sahin on loan from Real Madrid in 2012, but he lasted less than six months at the club.Liverpool face Real Madrid in the Champions League on Tuesday, and Sahin has a unique experience of the two teams. After rejoining former club Dortmund on loan, Sahin was brutally honest about 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.

And maybe if I had not gone there I would not have been able to return to Borussia Dortmund. 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.