James Milner is one of the best free signings the club have ever made but when you add onto this that he came from Manchester City as well, it makes it even sweeter.
Speaking on the High Performance podcast about joining Manchester City from Aston Villa, the former vice captain said: “I think most players would go, ‘who’s won the most trophies recently? I’ll go and join a club where I know they win’.
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“Yeah, that was just my thinking, I think it was something that appealed to me, you could see [Man City] were going somewhere and the harder decision was probably City to Liverpool because I could have stayed at City but again that was probably the braver decision, in terms of, you know, Liverpool’s a big pull as well but it wasn’t the level it was, you know, it wasn’t the highest level challenge for trophies necessarily when I went there.
“So, that was probably a braver decision and along the same lines but you know, City was spending a lot of money and you could say that it was a good chance to be successful.
“I hadn’t won anything yet in my career, I think we lost, in the last season at Villa, we lost in the League Cup final, so being close but not won something.”
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It seems quite clear that the history and the size of Liverpool was one of the major factors in the 37-year-old’s decision to make the move to Merseyside.
It just goes to show that Pep Guardiola’s side can achieve anything they want to on the pitch today but it’ll never make up for the fact that they’re simply not as big a club as the Reds.
You can watch Milner’s comments on joining Liverpool (from 23:50) via High Performance on YouTube:
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Another cheap shot at city but the reality is he was not wanted at city no more yes he had a gid few years at Liverpool but he was not gud enough for city any longer how is that of pull of the reds pulling rejects
City wanted him to sign a new contract, he was absolutely wanted at city. He played almosy every game in his last season.
His main reason for joining Liverpool was he wanted to play centre midfield and was told by Rodgers he could, City wanted him out wide.
He said nowt! It the door handle jockey writer that said anything lol Desperate Milner said ‘ Liverpool’s a big pull as well ‘ (as City) and it was a ‘brave’ decision to join LFC as they were looking like they’d will as much showingMilner to be 100 % right, and Klopp’s now bigger net spend not to be near City