Newcastle United legend labelled Thiago Alcantara as 'technically perfect' after watching him play in a youth team game for Barcelona.
The Bayern Munich midfielder is now set to make the move to the Premier League, after Liverpoolagreed a fee with the Bundesliga giants.
Thiago has been instrumental to Bayern's success over the past few years, helping them win seven league titles and last season's Champions League.And he has gone a long way to delivering on Robson's prediction that "this player is going to do everything" after seeing him play as a youngster.
Speaking last month about Thiago's potential move to Liverpool, Sky Sports journalist Pete Graves told the story of when Robson first saw the Spaniard in action.
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