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This article contains affiliate links. We may earn a small commission on items purchased through this article, but that does not affect our editorial judgement.<\/em><\/p>\n Liverpool legend Steven Gerrard claims that his former club missed out on \u201ctwo bargains\u201d when Marc Guehi and Antoine Semenyo both joined Manchester City during the January transfer window.<\/strong><\/p>\n Speaking during TNT Sports\u2019<\/em> coverage of the FA Cup semi-final between Pep Guardiola\u2019s side and Southampton, Gerrard said:<\/p>\n \u201cThey should be playing for Liverpool, that hurts even more! We were linked with those two players who would have made a big difference to Liverpool.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve said it before on record, two top, top players, and for the price that they got them in as well, in today\u2019s market, they\u2019re two bargains.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cQuality players, experience, ready to go into the prime years of their career, international-level players and what they\u2019ve done is just help kick City on at the right time.\u201d<\/p>\n Many assumed that the Reds would revive their interest in January, only for Guehi to secure a \u00a320m move to City instead.<\/p>\n However, it later emerged that the England international\u2019s contract demands were excessive. He is said to be earning around \u00a3300,000 a week, including bonuses.<\/p>\n Get a premium tour of Anfield from Virgin Experience Days here<\/p>\n It was suggested that Liverpool would have the inside track on a deal for the Ghanaian because of sporting director Richard Hughes. He had signed the player for Bournemouth from Bristol City.<\/p>\n However, Semenyo<\/strong> is believed to have told suitors that City were the club he wanted to play for. Other teams, including Chelsea, Tottenham and Man United, made attempts to secure the player, but it seems his heart was set on a switch to the Etihad. Ultimately, Liverpool never made an approach, knowing full well he wouldn\u2019t come to Anfield.<\/p>\n Want more news on Liverpool? Add Walk On as a preferred source on Google<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This article contains affiliate links. We may earn a small commission on items purchased through…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Why didn\u2019t Liverpool sign Guehi?<\/h2>\n
The 25-year-old was on the verge of completing a move to Anfield last summer before the deal dramatically collapsed on Deadline Day.<\/p>\nSemenyo made City his favoured destination<\/h2>\n