This report has emerged on the same day that the Reds will lock horns with the Ligue 1 champion.

On Tuesday, Kylian Mbappe will be one of the star players leading PSG's attack with the sole purpose of inflicting defeat on Liverpool when they meet in the Champions League. With that a mind, a report out of France claims the youngster could have been playing for the opposition.

Ahead of the highly-anticipated Anfield tie, L'Equipe has claimed that the Reds came close to signing the starlet in the summer of 2017. Back then, he was a highly-sought after youngster who helped Monaco win Ligue 1 after a spectacular 2016/17 campaign.

As a result, many top clubs came for the Frenchman, one being the Merseyside giant. The report even claims Jurgen Klopp spent hours talking to the attacker to convince him to move to England over other suitors.

Liverpool was ready to make Mbappe their joint-highest earner at Anfield despite his young age. However, one thing went against them and that was the spending power of PSG and Real Madrid.

The Premier League side could not match what the Ligue 1 and Spanish Primera Division sides were offering in terms of transfer fee. In the end, both the Reds and Los Blancos missed out, as the teenager ended up at Parc des Princes.

Klopp's men enjoyed a tremendous season regardless, with the Mane-Salah-Firmino trio terrorizing defenders and scoring for fun en route to a Champions League runner-up finish. As for Kylian, he won the domestic treble with PSG before winning the World Cup with France in 2018.

While things turned out well for both parties nonetheless, Liverpool's failure to sign the Frenchman might come back to haunt them should he tear them apart in Tuesday's encounter. The 19-year-old heads into this tie on the back of good form, having scored four and assisted two in only three games for Les Parisiens.