Five hijacked transfers as Liverpool swoop late for Luis Diaz…

Tottenham laid on a cab for one of Arsenal’s best Premier League-era signings, while Man Utd were snubbed over a £120,000 house, a white BMW, and a sunbed.

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With Liverpool set to complete the signing of Luis Diaz from under the nose of Spurs, here are five other deals that took a late twist…

Paul Gascoigne

“Go and enjoy yourself, Mr Ferguson, I’ll be signing for Manchester United,” Gazza told the Red Devils boss in 1988.

“So I went on my holidays,” wrote Sir Alex in his autobiography. “But Martin Edwards rang and said I’ve got some bad news – he signed for Tottenham.”

How did Spurs do it? With the lure of a house for Gazza’s parents and a sunbed for his sister.

“He went on holiday and I was driving to Old Trafford. The phone went, and it was Irving Scholar,” Gascoigne later reflected.

“He asked what I wanted in my contract and I asked for a nice house for my family. I rang my dad up and said ‘Spurs have offered a house’ and he said ‘what are you waiting for?’. I rang back and said my dad would like a car, a white BMW with a private reg on and they said ‘consider it done’.”

“But the phone rang again and it was my sister. She said ‘If mam’s getting a house and dad’s getting a car, I want a sunbed’. Irving said ‘consider it done… just get here’.”

Gazza also revealed later that he was worried about