Condition: 8/10 Excellent. Some wear to the rear name and number

Size: Adult’s Extra Large

Chest Measurement: 46-48 Inches / 117-122 CM

Manufacturer: Reebok

Colour: Red, white trim

Material: Polyester

Seasons: 1998/1999

Player: Steve McManaman

Patches: N/A

Official Reebok Liverpool home football shirt from the 1998/99 season.

Condition of this original football jersey is 8/10 - Excellent. Some wear to the rear name and number (see photos).

McManaman was named Liverpool captain at the start of the 1998–99 season, but contract negotiations continued to flounder as the club could not match the sums available to McManaman if he left as a free agent. Having been overlooked by Glenn Hoddle for the 1998 World Cup squad in an underachieving Liverpool side, denounced in the English media as being greedy and bolstered by advice from the likes of fellow professionals Paul Ince, Paul Gascoigne, David Platt, and Chris Waddle, McManaman publicly announced his desire to play abroad.

Numerous European clubs circled the soon-to-be free agent with Real Madrid quickly being seen as his most likely destination. In January 1999 it was reported that McManaman was talking to Real with the player reportedly offered £60,000 a week and nearly £2 million as a signing on fee. 

On 30 January, McManaman passed a medical and signed an official pre-contract with the club which would make him the best paid British footballer to date. He declined to pose in a Real Madrid shirt at the contract signing event, out of respect for Liverpool's fans.

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