While Liverpool fans await news of any incomings or outgoings on deadline day, there are always players who got away or couldn’t get their move over the line.
In 2005, Nolberto Solano was leaving Aston Villa to return to his former club Newcastle United, when Rafa Benitez said he was interested in the winger in the final hours of the transfer market.
However, Solano had already agreed to re-join the Magpies after speaking to ex-team mates Alan Shearer and Steve Harper, meaning that he turned down the chance to join the Reds.
Liverpool went on to win the FA Cup, thanks to Steven Gerrard’s famous performance, and reach another Champions League final a year later - but Solano maintains he is still happy with his decision.
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"Nobody can read the future. Nobody knows what's going to happen. I followed my feelings, which were to go back to Newcastle at that time, because I love the club and I love the fans”, he told the BBC.
“I had a phone call from one of the agents of Rafa Benitez, but I'd already given my word to Newcastle.
“I spoke to a few of the lads and I was happy to come back to the club. With the opportunity to move to Liverpool, it was quite a crazy day.
"If Liverpool were talking to me a few days or weeks earlier I might have thought about it, but when it happened on the same day, I wasn't sure.”
Solano’s move to St. James’ Park also rested on current Liverpool player James Milner heading to Villa on loan in the opposite direction.
Having been informed of Newcastle’s £1.5m bid, the Peruvian had a long journey ahead of him, in order to sign on the dotted line for new manager Graeme Souness.
"It was exciting and stressful. First of all, I had to drive four hours from Birmingham to Newcastle. I was driving like crazy on the motorway!" Solano laughed.
"I arrived at the club, went for my medical, did the paperwork and everything like that. I remember I finished at like 11 o'clock at night. It was a tough day, but I was over the moon."
With players continually being linked to moves both in and out of Melwood, Solano’s experiences 16 years ago are not dissimilar from what a current player will be faced with as the final hours of the transfer market tick down.
