The former agent of Real Betis midfielder Nabil Fekir has come clean on why a move to Liverpool fell through.
Jean-Pierre Bernes has revealed to Canal Plus that a third party had been at fault for the failed transfer.
He said, "Nabil was Liverpool's priority. I worked for four months with the Liverpool representatives, with Jurgen Klopp, Jean-Michel Aulas, everything was ready.
"Nabil was already aware of his future contract, which would have seen him earn around 45m over five years.
"And on the day that the contract was supposed to be signed, at Rambouillet, we saw a lawyer and Nabil's brother-in-law arrived who said: 'Stop everything, discussions have to start all over again'. It was surreal. We thought that we were in a Walt Disney film."
He added: "There were two elements. The player's medical was negative and the second element was that when you want to sign for a big club like Liverpool, you need a certain attitude.
"When the Liverpool guys witnessed this cinema, they immediately Sometimes when a player has an injury representatives can make an effort to make it work.
"The brother-in-law of Nabil all of a sudden acted like a player's agent. He wanted a commission, everyone knows, it is fashionable these days.
"[Fekir] was on a cloud, he seemed to have transformed, he didn't even greet the Liverpool representatives.
"He arrived after the medical, everyone was looking at each other, the Liverpool representatives were wondering where they were. I was ashamed."
