10 Biggest Premier League Transfers That Nearly Happened
1. Steven Gerrard To Chelsea
No one player in modern English football is as synonymous with a club as Steven Gerrard is to Liverpool.
However, mere weeks after leading his boyhood club to the most dramatic of Champions League final victories in Istanbul, Gerrard expressed his desire to leave Liverpool. Chelsea soon emerged as his likely destination, with the Premier League club tabling a bid in excess of £30 million.
Citing the club's lack of ambition and success as his primary motivation in leaving, the Liverpool hierarchy appeared resigned to losing their talisman. But Gerrard soon had a change of heart. The reasons for backtracking on his wish to leave is shrouded in controversy, with many believing it is down to the threats his family had received from certain sectors of Liverpool fan base.
Steven Gerrard is one of the greatest players of the Premier League era to never lift the league championship. A move to Chelsea would have almost certainly rectified this, with the London club victorious just twelve months later in retaining their title.