Never turn down a free lunch, that's what our mums always told us.
This is advice Liverpool maybe should have heeded when Ghana striker Andre Ayew came to the with an offer they couldn't refuse...but did, evidently.
He's now at Swansea, of course, where he's made a blistering start to his debut season in the Premier League.
The 25-year-old has netted three times in his first four games to lift the Swans into the top four to start the campaign.
Ayew joined the Welsh club on a free - and even with a £5million signing bonus and wages of £50,000 a week, he looks a snip - and certainly one of the signings of the summer.
But things could have been oh so very different, if a report in the Sun is correct.
Lifeling Reds fan Ayew is said to have offered his services to Liverpool, with his agents telling the Merseysiders that the player would be happy to accept no salary until January in a bid to prove himself.
Brendan Rodgers and the infamous transfer committee at Anfield turned down the offer, of course.
They might live to regret that if Ayew carries on in this rich vein of form.
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