(Video) Benitez confirms Liverpool interest in ex-Madrid and Spurs man but club ‘couldn’t compete’

Liverpool have not always been able to compete to sign the biggest players in world football and Rafa Benitez has shared a frustrating tale of one deal that passed us by.

Speaking on The Overlap, the Spaniard stated: “Gareth Bale, when he was 17 at Southampton, six months after we were watching him, Tottenham paid £8m, and we couldn’t compete.”

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