Jurgen Klopp said I was a wonderful talent - but my Liverpool career never took off after injury

When Sheyi Ojo joined Liverpool, he was only 14. He made the move to Anfield for a fee of around $2.5m (£2.0m/€2.4m) from MK Dons and was tipped to be the next big thing.

In Jurgen Klopp's first season at Liverpool, Ojo made eight appearances and then by the summer, was publicly described by the German as a "wonderful player" whose future was "100 per cent" with the Reds. Now 27, though, he is playing in Slovenia with Maribor.

"If I’m honest, I didn’t enjoy football last season (on loan at Kortrijk from Cardiff City)," Ojo told The Athletic. "I was playing out of position the majority of the time, at wing-back. Not just for me, but for the club as well, it was a very frustrating season.

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"Over the last two years, I have not enjoyed football in the way I would have wanted to. I guess that was the main motivation for coming here, because the plan and the vision they set out for me was pretty clear: they just wanted to see me play with a smile on my face and show everyone and myself how good I really am. So it felt like the perfect opportunity to do that."

It was injuries that derailed Ojo's progress. "I was really upset, to be honest," he said. "It didn’t break me because I’m still here but at the time I remember feeling heartbroken because I knew really that was my opportunity to properly kick on. It was a back injury and I was out for about four months. Even to this day, I remember that exact feeling. It was a hard one to take."

Now having found a club where he fits in, Ojo is glad to have found a permanent home too. He won the U20 World Cup with England but then fractured his back and embarked on a series of loans. Ojo went to Wigan, Wolves, Fulham, Reims, Rangers (with Steven Gerrard), Cardiff and Millwall, but adapting to a new club and a new style every year brings its own challenges.

"It’s never easy, it’s like going to a new job," he said. "You’ve got to meet new people; every coach I’ve played under has played football in a completely different way, they want and demand (different) things from me. I’ve played in different positions so you’ve got to adapt and still somehow keep your own identity within that, and sometimes it’s not as straightforward as people think it is."