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“Do I regret it? It’s always difficult to look back but if you ask me now then yeah, I should have joined Liverpool for sure. I just made a wrong decision but it’s not a regret.”

It’s six years since Mario Gotze rejected a move to Liverpool in favour of returning to Borussia Dortmund, having fallen out of favour at Bayern Munich. Jurgen Klopp had just come to end of his first season at Anfield and, having suffered defeat in both the Europa League and League Cup finals, wanted to reunite with his compatriot as he looked to kickstart his Reds revolution.

“We spoke back then about me coming to Liverpool,” Gotze recently admitted to the Daily Mail. “But I wasn’t in a state of mind where I could consider it, that’s why it didn’t happen.”

Had Liverpool won the 2016 Europa League final, they would have qualified for the Champions League. Instead, they prepared for a season out of Europe altogether while Dortmund competed on the continent’s biggest stage. You wonder if the Reds had actually qualified for Europe’s elite competition, whether the German would have felt in a position to consider such a move.

While Gotze might not regret