🚨 Nabil Fekir on his collapsed move to Liverpool FC and joining Real Betis in 2018:
🗣️ “That move to Liverpool… it was my dream. Everything was almost done, I had spoken with the manager, I could already imagine myself playing at Anfield, wearing the shirt.
Then suddenly, everything collapsed. In football, things can change very quickly, but that one hurt a lot.
Even now, it still hurts me a bit, because I know how close I was to that moment.
For a time, it was difficult mentally. When a dream disappears like that, it stays with you.
But I had to stay strong, keep working, and move forward.
Joining Real Betis gave me a new opportunity, a new challenge, and I found joy in football again.
Sometimes what feels like a setback is just a different path and you have to embrace it.”
I’m totally devastated. There’s absolutely no excuse for this. We had everything we needed to make it to next year’s Champions League and we failed. We are Liverpool and qualifying to the competition is the bare minimum. I am sorry but it’s too soon for an uplifting or optimistic post. We let you and ourselves down.
This is what we wanted to deliver to our fans more than anything. This is a club that should always compete for everything and be right at the top. No excuses. All teams win games but in the end there’s only one champion. That’s what history remembers and this applies to next season as well.