Al Ahli midfielder Nabil El Zhar is proud of his time with Liverpool.

El Zhar became a Red as a youngster back in 2006 after joining from Saint-Etienne.

He would go on to represent the first team of the club he supported as a child 32 times across five years. Every second was a privilege.

"I remember going to play games for the reserves and all the way I was just looking at the logo and telling myself, 'This is unreal, I'm playing for this team, look I have the tracksuit, the logo'," the 33-year-old told liverpoolfc.com.

"There's some things like this that you can still remember 10 years after or even more. Honestly, I had a great, great time over there.

"I can also say right now because I don't think I've said it until now, when I received the call from Liverpool, I was going to sign for AS Roma. I was in Italy to sign five years for AS Roma.

"The minute I received the offer from Liverpool, I just went to France to get everything done to fly to Liverpool. I just told my agent that I wanted to go to Liverpool.

"They wanted me and wanted to send me the offer [by] fax. I told my mum to get the fax and as soon as she got the fax, I travelled down. My agent was not happy because he was not involved in this deal!"