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Carlo Ancelotti attracted some of the greatest players in the world to his Champions League winning Milan side.

But the three-times Champions league winning boss admits frustration at the Liverpool star who got away.

Asked in the July edition of FourFourTwo magazine “Who is the one player you wished you had signed, but missed out on?” he revealed: “I tried to sign Steven Gerrard from Liverpool but it just wasn’t possible.”

Ancelotti, who managed Milan from 2001 to 2009, doesn’t reveal when he tried to snap up the Reds legend - butmaybe he was influenced by Gerrard’s performance in the one Champions League final he did not win, in 2005.

Ancelotti added that the memory of Istanbul still troubles him.

“I look back at this quite often,” he added. “But I don’t think there is anything I could have done differently. It was all about six minutes. We played for 114 minutes, Liverpool played for six minutes. That’s the truth of it.

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“It was a very strange game. You know, i took this Milan team to three Champions league finals, and 2005 was actually the best we played - but it was the only one we lost!”

Ancelotti also refuted the suggestions his players were celebrating at half-time in the Ataturk Stadium.

“No, no, this is bulls***t. Bulls**t! We were very happy because we had played a fantastic first half, but we knew we had another half to play.

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“Even at 3-3 we should have won it in the last minute when Andriy Shevchenko had a chance in fromt of goal but Dudek saved it.”

Shame ...