Micah Richards has revealed he rejected a potential move to Liverpool despite the efforts of Robbie Fowler to make this happen.
Richards, who now works as a pundit for various sports channels, rose through the City ranks as a youngster before making his first-team bow in 2005. The 34-year-old would remain at the club for a decade, with his standout moment arriving in the 2011/12 season as the Sky Blues claimed the Premier League title in the most dramatic of circumstances.
During the early stages at the club, a team-mate of his was none other than Fowler. Leaving Leeds United in 2003 to sign for City, the Liverpool great spent three years at the Etihad before sealing a shock return to Anfield in 2006.
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Prior to making his Merseyside return, Fowler made a move for the Birmingham-born defender to join him at Anfield but was unsuccessful as City's right-back stayed put. Opening up on how a transfer to the Reds could have come about, Richards told the BBC Match of the Day: Top 10 Podcast: "He [Fowler] was a funny guy, he was at City for a while towards the end and he was always cracking jokes.
"He tried to tap me up to Liverpool didn’t he? He tried to get me through the back door didn’t he, saying he has this person and that Liverpool want to meet me, to come for a coffee and all of that sort of stuff. But I never went, I was City through and through wasn’t I?”
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