Ten Transfers That Famously Fell Through After Liverpool’s Remy Deal Collapses

2. Zinedine Zidane – Bordeaux to Blackburn Rovers

Aged 23, and already outgrowing the French top flight, he was offered up to Champions Blackburn Rovers for just £3m. Kenny Dalgleish was sold, but club chairman Jack Walker put a block on the deal by saying; “why do you want to sign Zidane when we’ve got Sherwood?”