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Tottenham keeper Freidel explains rejecting Liverpool offer

Tottenham goalkeeper Brad Friedel has explained turning down a Liverpool return last summer.

Friedel did not want to be the back-up to Pepe Reina and is confident he made the right decision in moving to White Hart Lane.

"I had four offers in the summer," Friedel told the Mail on Sunday. "I didn't choose the one with the highest financial reward, I chose what I thought was the best squad and the best opportunity."

When asked if he was tempted to rejoin Liverpool, he replied: "Absolutely. Kenny (Dalglish) was very much above board, said that he could offer me the world, offer me a lot of things, but he couldn't offer me first-team football enough.

"I had a tough decision but after I had met the (Tottenham) chairman, after I had met the gaffer, and you really see the squad and infrastructure at the club...it was clear that the ambition was to get bigger, better.

"You can never tell someone you're going to come in and play in every game because you have to keep your form going and we have a lot of good keepers at this club.

"(But) I never signed a contract in my career to be a No 2. I felt that if I had chosen Liverpool, I was sort of signing (for) my retirement."

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