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Charlie Adam has revealed how he once held transfer talks with legendary Liverpool manager Gerard Houllier in the Frenchman’s apartment before making his own move to Anfield.

Tottenham Hotspur and Aston Villa also wanted Adam, who went close to a move to Villa Park at one point.

Houllier was the manager of Villa at the time, having returned to the Premier League for the first time since his successful six-year stint with Liverpool came to an end in 2004.



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And Adam has recalled how he held transfer talks with Houllier in his apartment prior to the January transfer window opening as the former Liverpool boss tried to persuade him to move to the Midlands.

“I did have a couple of options to speak to clubs,” Adam told talkSPORT last summer when recalling how close he came to leaving Blackpool in January 2011.

“I once met Gerard Houllier who for me was a very, very top manager.

They were the two clubs that were coming in for me then.”

Adam also recently told the ‘I Had Trials Once’ podcast: “November, December before the January window, I had an inkling that maybe two or three clubs were going to come for me.

“I knew that Liverpool wanted me.

I went to meet Gerard Houllier in his apartment he was at Aston Villa at the time.

That was an unbelievable experience.

“Well, I went with my agent to his apartment, started talking to him and he got tactics boards out in the living room and that.

So I always think about when I met him, it was an unbelievable experience.”

However, despite interest from Villa, Adam admits he did not have to think twice when Liverpool entered the race for his signature.

“When I knew Liverpool were interested, it was the club I wanted to go to,” he told talkSPORT.
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