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Alberto Moreno may have often been man on the peripheries at Anfield, but he looks back on his time at Liverpool with great fondness.
"They were beautiful years, but strange things also happened and others where I had bad luck,” the Spaniard admitted last year. Signed in 2014, Moreno went from a regular under Brendan Rodgers, to a valued - if fringe part - of Jurgen Klopp’s squad.
Having initially been the first choice left-back, Moreno slipped down the pecking order, ultimately replaced by Andy Robertson. And after making just five appearances in his final season at Liverpool, he decided to return to Spain, despite the offer of a new contract on Merseyside.
“In my fifth year, I was offered to renew for another five years. I said no. We’d had many years in England," he told El Periodico Mediterraneo. "I have three children and spoke with my wife, and we decided that the best thing was to return to Spain. I just wanted to go back to Spain."
Joining Villarreal, Moreno rediscovered some of his best form and despite a serious knee injury was fit and available for the Yellow Submarine’s Europa League final with Manchester United last year. And under the stewardship of Unai Emery, the full-back helped the La Liga side to a penalty-shootout victory over the Red Devils.
But it was the moments following the trophy lift which endeared him to his former