"Around two weeks later, they contacted my father and said, We've been talking about it internally and given that Michael's very young, we think he needs a season to adapt, so we think we should make it a three-plus-one contract four years in total. My father said that was OK, but Liverpool then told him it would be for the same terms as the previously agreed three-year deal."
"I liked Liverpool as I was watching them in the 1970s English football was on Danish TV. It was great when they invited me over there for a meeting I went with my father and they proposed a three-year contract, to which we agreed. Once we were back in Denmark I started telling people that I was going to Liverpool. I agreed that I needed some time to adapt, but then we should make a new arrangement. They probably assumed that I'd sign anyway. What they didn't know was that my father's old coach was a friend of the president of Juventus, and they also wanted me."
Michael Laudrup became a celebrated playmaker with a career spanning clubs such as Lazio, Juventus, Barcelona and Real Madrid, and earned 104 caps for Denmark. He admired Liverpool after watching English football on Danish television and accepted a three-year contract offer during a meeting attended with his father. Two weeks later Liverpool proposed a three-plus-one term but then insisted on the original three-year conditions, which Laudrup and his father found unfair. Laudrup sought revised terms to allow time to adapt. Juventus expressed interest through a connection to his father's former coach, and Laudrup ultimately did not move to England.
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