Liverpool made an offer for me - but I signed a contract and broke my leg the next day

Roy Hodgson’s brief reign as Liverpool manager is not looked on fondly.

The Crystal Palace boss replaced Rafa Benitez in the Anfield dugout in the summer of 2010, only to be dismissed by new owners FSG in July 2011 following a dismal stint on Merseyside which saw him oversee just 13 victories from 31 games in charge.

His transfer record with the club is one Kopites would prefer to forget also, having signed flops Milan Jovanovic, Joe Cole, Christian Poulsen, Danny Wilson, and Paul Konchesky. The latter would follow Hodgson to Anfield from Fulham on summer transfer deadline day, as part of an infamous deal which saw the then Liverpool boss accidentally sell the wrong player as one of two youth players who left the club in exchange.

Yet Konchesky wasn’t the only player Hodgson tried to sign from Fulham after taking over as Reds manager. With Fernando Torres struggling with injury and his future the subject of scrutiny, leading to an eventual £50m transfer to Chelsea in January 2011, the former Liverpool manager also tried to sign Bobby Zamora from his former club.

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The Reds even went as far as bidding for him, according to the striker, only to end up signing a new contract at Craven Cottage after Hodgson’s successor, Mark Hughes, told him he wanted him to stay at Fulham.

“We had Mark Hughes at Fulham at the time,” the former England international revealed when speaking on the Say it and Spray It Podcast. “I enjoyed my time with Mark, he came at the start of the season, I had a good pre-season with him.

“Roy (Hodgson) came in for me at Liverpool and Harry Redknapp came in