Former defender Phil Babb has opened up on his transfer from Coventry City to Liverpool in 1994.
The now 45-year-old put in an impressive showing during the 1994 World Cup finals in the United States, and would garner interest from several clubs as a result.
The Reds made him Britain's most expensive defender with £3.6m transfer fee, and he went on to spend six seasons with the club, making 170 appearances and winning the League Cup in his first season.
However, things could have been very different, as Babb says that Tottenham made a similar offer. Once he learned of Liverpool's interest, though, there was one place he was going.
"I was in demand," he said to Sky Sports' Fantasy Football Club show (H/T theDaily Star).
"I was on holiday and every other day I was reading the papers and [they said] I was going here, there and everywhere.
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"I think the other real firm bid was from Spurs. They made a bid, much the same as Liverpool's.
"Phil Neal was my manager at Coventry at the time and said 'where do you want to go, son?' and it was no choice for me really.
"Neal thought I was going to go to Spurs, being a London boy, but when Liverpool came calling, it was a no brainer."
Babb would win nothing more than the League Cup during his time at Liverpool, and agrees that the team could have won much more, yet he doesn't regret it a bit.
"When you look back on your career and you look back at your honours and stuff like that, you think the team we had was so good on paper we should have won more.
"Liverpool at the end of the 70s and throughout the 80s were the best team in Europe, winning trophies time and time again.It came to an end around 1992 and the new team came in just as Man Utd were getting stronger and stronger and winning everything.
"Liverpool's time will come again, unfortunately my time won't and, of course, I would have liked to have won more, it just wasn't to be.
"It was still a great time and the six years I had at Liverpool, I loved every minute."