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Liverpool Echo
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Keifer MacDonald

Liverpool players begged Jurgen Klopp to sign midfielder but little did they know

In late 2019 when Red Bull Salzburg ventured to Anfield for the first Champions League away game in their history, all eyes were on one particular member of Jesse Marsch's side.

That was, of course, 19-year-old Norwegian forward Erling Haaland.

If at the start of the 2019/2020 season Haaland was just another unknown, unearthed prodigy on the European stage, by the time the season concluded some 11 months later he would be a name on every supporter's lips who had the privilege of witnessing his remarkable skill-set live in the flesh.

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