SC Heerenveen dazzler Chidera Ejuke has admitted that he felt bad after missing out on a dream move to European champions Liverpool in 2016.
Ejuke along with Jacob Njoku, Charles Ezeh and Suleiman Muhammad trained with the Anfield side with a view to signing professional contracts, only for the Reds to pass up the opportunity to sign the quartet.
Ejuke would later sign for Norwegian club Valerenga, where he spent two years, before transferring to his current club Heerenveen last summer.
"We had a scouting programme in Abia State and an agent from London was there, I was selected with a couple of my friends even Charles Ezeh," Ejuke said in an Instagram conversation with Eagles Tracker.
"We got selected and traveled to Liverpool for trials. We did the trials for a couple of weeks and it doesn't seem Liverpool were interested then.
"After a couple of weeks we had to come back to Nigeria and you know like in that moment you feel somehow, after all those years you have been waiting for those opportunities and you got the first opportunity to travel to Europe for the first time, being on a plane.
"After a couple of weeks we had to come back to Nigeria and you know like in that moment you feel somehow, after all those years you have been waiting for those opportunities and you got the first opportunity to travel to Europe for the first time, being on a plane.
"You went there and all of a sudden it wasn't a success, you feel bad. I felt like I disappointed my agent, my family, the people that believed in me. I never thought something like that would happen."
Four years after Ejuke's failed move to Liverpool, the winger has emerged as one of the hottest prospects in the Eredvisie and has been linked with possible moves to Feyenoord and Ajax Amsterdam in the summer.
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