💣 Klopp: I met the Mbappé family on a jet 🛩️! £500m deal, but he... 🤯 | OneFootball

Jürgen Klopp spoke about some secret meetings with the Mbappé family aboard a private jet, in what was surely the most expensive failed transfer of his time at Liverpool.

Klopp revealed the story last night on the touchline before the quarter-final between France and Morocco: "It’s really tough for me right now," he told MagentaTV. "I dealt with three of these players in the past, but I never managed to sign them." He was referring to Kylian Mbappé, Ousmane Dembélé and Adrien Rabiot.

"With Mbappé, it was before his move to Paris Saint-Germain. The deal was worth around €500 million: the most expensive failed signing we ever tried to make. We flew from Blackpool to Nice. In Nice, the entire Mbappé family came aboard a private jet with five cabins. Then we stayed flying around the area, eating together. We couldn’t let anyone see us," said Klopp, who was Liverpool manager at the time. "It was all fantastic, but in the end he chose PSG."

Speaking about Dembélé instead, who was playing for Rennes at the time, Klopp admitted he had a bad feeling right away. "I’m not even sure he knew who we were," he said. "At one point my phone fell on the floor. The only outcome of that evening was that my phone broke." Who knows how the history of world football might have changed if Klopp had managed to bring even just one of the two French superstars to Anfield...

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