Liverpool agreed to sell me to Man City - but there was no way I was going there

Daniel Agger admits he rejected a mega-money move to Manchester City during his playing days at Anfield - despite the Reds wanting to cash in on the defender

Agger, now 39, made the move to Anfield from Danish Superliga side Brondby in 2006 and enjoyed a fine eight-year career on Merseyside

The former Denmark international was part of Benitez's Liverpool side that came within a whisker of sealing a first Premier League crown in 19 years in 2009

By 2012, however, Agger found himself at the centre of a transfer tug-of-war between Man City and Barcelona

After Spanish giants Barca's offer was blown out of the water by the UAE-backed City, Agger admits he had no interest in swapping Merseyside for Manchester.

Agger

“It was a strange one,”

"I remember I got presented for all these things and the club asked me what I was going to do and I said, ‘If you want me here, I will stay’. But I said, ‘If you don’t want me, if you don’t see me as part of your future I think it’s time that I go because I want to play football.

"I prefer to do it here but if you don’t think I’m good enough then I would like to go because these offers are on the table and I don’t know if I will have them next year'.

“I don’t know the story from their side, I think they agreed a price (with Barcelona) and they accepted it and came to me and said, ‘this is it’.

"I said, ‘okay, fair enough’. But then from the side, another offer came in which was a lot higher, which they accepted and I didn’t want to go to that club.

“I said, ‘if you want to sell me I go down there (to Barcelona) otherwise I don’t go’.

"And another offer came in from the same club (Man City), higher, and my feeling was that the club wanted me to go because it was a lot of money back then. I said, ‘there’s no chance I’m going to that club, so better just stop now’.”