Charlie Adam, now at Stoke City, joined Liverpool in the summer of 2011.
Adam joined Liverpool from Stoke in the summer of 2011 for an initial transfer fee reported by The Telegraph to be worth £7 million and when Dalglish was in charge of the Reds.
The Scotland international midfielder, though, was at Anfield for only one season, as he moved to Stoke in the summer of 2012.
Adam is still at Stoke, who are playing in the Championship this season after getting relegated from the Premier League at the end of the 2017-18 campaign, and Liverpool legend Dalglish has revealed that Tottenham wanted to sign the 33-year-old midfielder back in January 2011.
Dalglish wrote about Adam in The Sunday Post: “I did want to sign Charlie Adam for Liverpool from Blackpool in January, 2011. Tottenham were also sniffing around for the Scottish midfielder’s signature at that time.
“We worked on it until the last day, but we knew with a few hours to spare that Blackpool were not going to sell, and we had to wait until the summer to get him.”
No big loss
Adam was playing well for Blackpool at the time, and he was supposed to be a success at Liverpool.
However, it did not work out exactly according to plan for the Scotland international midfielder at Anfield, and Tottenham have moved on.
Missing out on Adam was no big loss for Spurs, who signed better players in the midfield department in the subsequent years.
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