Brendan Rodgers: 'Gylfi Sigurdsson chose Tottenham Hotspur for higher wages'

Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers has suggested that Gylfi Sigurdsson's move to Tottenham Hotspur was motivated by money.

The 22-year-old was poised to join Liverpool until Spurs swooped in and signed the Icelandic midfielder this week.

"He and I both sat and spoke," Rodgers told the Liverpool Echo. "I believed playing football was going to be the most important aspect for him, but obviously it was important financially as well.

"I knew what the market was, and I wasn't prepared to pay anything over what I had known was agreed already."

According to the South Wales Evening Post Sigurdsson has increased his wages by £25,000 a week following his move from Hoffenhein to White Hart Lane.