Yevhen Konoplyanka: Liverpool offered 25 million euros for me. I begged to be let go, but Kolomoisky was adamant.”

Ukrainian midfielder of the Polish Cracovia Yevhen Konoplyanka told how in 2015, being a player of the then-existing Dnipro, he was one step away from moving to the English Liverpool.

“In that situation, I ended up crying. A delegation of serious people from Liverpool arrived in Dnepropetrovsk. We had dinner. “The deal is done,” they said.

They had to pay as much as Igor Kolomoisky wanted. Martin Skrtel wrote me a message: "We are waiting for you." Steven Gerrard also expressed his blessing.

I myself went to Kolomoisky. “Please, please, please let me go, I will fulfill my dream,” I pleaded.

Liverpool offered 25 million euros. This is a big amount. But Igor Kolomoisky was adamant. However, I was not disappointed that in the end I got to Sevilla," Konoplyanka said in an interview with the Polish edition of Weszlo.