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Andy Lonergan among the one-time Liverpool goalkeeping unit.

Former Liverpool goalkeeper Andy Lonergan has revealed how his surprise transfer to the club came about.

But no deal looked to be forthcoming - especially after the Reds completed the signing of Adrian.

However, that all changed on the opening night of the season when Alisson Becker picked up a calf injury during the first-half of his side's 4-1 win over Norwich City.



And, in the blink of an eye, Lonergan found himself signing a deal until the end of the campaign and then on the bench for the UEFA Super Cup tie with Chelsea in Istanbul just days later.

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And now recalling how he came to be offered a deal by the Reds, Lonergan revealed that he received a call from the club at half-time during the Norwich game before being contracted after that match by John Achterberg, who asked him to come and sign the next day.

"Someone from Liverpool got in touch and said, Do you want to come on pre-season with us?" the now Wigan Athletic player-coach told the I Had Trials Once podcast.

"[Simon] Mignolet was there, but no other goalkeepers.

To be fair, at the end, they did say; 'We are going to pay you for this, and I signed'.

"I come back from there and then Alisson come to Switzerland training, and I'm like; 'I can't wait to see this guy.

So the first few sessions he was just getting up to speed.

"Then Mignolet left at the Charity Shield, Adrian signed and I was like; 'I'm definitely going to get pushed out', but then Alisson got injured on the first game of the season, and at half-time my phone rang someone from Liverpool, and then after the game the goalkeeper coach rang me [and said]; 'Come tomorrow, you are signing'.

"And then on the Tuesday we played in Istanbul in the Super Cup, and I was on the bench.

And we won it."

Lonergan went on to be a member of the squad that won the Premier League title and picked up winner's medals in both the UEFA Super Cup and FIFA Club World Cup, and he admits that he saw first-hand why that side were so successful.

"It was weird because that season there, I felt like I wasn't myself for the majority of the season because it was so intense and serious," he said.

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"They would come in, everybody does their work, train, eat and then goes home.
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