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Nowadays, Ovie Ejaria is plying his trade in the Championship - but not that long ago he was the poster boy for Liverpool's academy stars.

The winger moved to Anfield in 2014 after making the switch from boyhood club Arsenal. He spent six years on Merseyside and made a handful of senior appearances while being loaned out on three separate occasions.

But it was in 2016 that he made the big breakthrough under Jurgen Klopp, who held high hopes for the talented midfielder. The London-born ace impressed on a pre-season tour and it led to him featuring sporadically in the first team the following campaign.

Klopp, speaking in 2017, used Ejaria as a prime example of how a youngster can suddenly catch the eye. He said: "I told the boys before the session that last year, Ovie Ejaria came onto my plate, if you want.

"I saw him here first. I knew him, I saw him playing a few times, but here having him around for four days and seeing him in small spaces in the sessions against the ‘adults’ if you want was very important for him and for me. It’s an opportunity.

"You can see in their eyes they know it; they are really ambitious when they think about the sessions and we will try to do everything we can to give them the opportunity to