Charlie Adam has revealed he held talks over a return to Rangers when Steven Gerrard first took over.
The midfielder duo played alongside each other at Liverpool and the now Aston Villa boss is said to have explored a potential reunion between the pair.
Adam was on the books at Stoke City at the time but says he would have been well up for a return to Ibrox.
The 36-year-old was informed of the plans in place at Rangers including a return for Steven Davis.
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However, a move never materialised for the former Scotland international, who would eventually make a return north of the border with boyhood club Dundee in 2020.
Speaking on the BBC's This Sporting Life podcast, he said: "I had one or two discussions with Steven to come back over the years when he first joined and things like that.
"I had conversations, met him to talk about it. That was early on (in Gerrard's reign). When Mark Allen was Director of Football.
"Unfortunately for me it was something that never happened. I was still at Stoke at the time.
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"I knew at the time they were going to sign (Steven) Davis and what the plan was.
"I was up for it but unfortunately it never happened. But that's the way it goes."
Asked if he regretted that the move never came to anything, Adam added: "Yeah. Big club, the pressure.
"But you can only get that if the proper offer was there.
"There was discussions but it never ever materialised."
