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18-05-2020 | 23:11 • Football
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Former Liverpool midfielder regrets leaving the club in 2013
Former Liverpool midfielder Jonjo Shelvey regrets leaving the Merseyside club in 2013.
28-year-old Newcastle vice-captain joined the Reds in 2010 from Charlton, when he was 17. Shelvey was one of the most talented prospects in the Merseyside club. Both Kenny Dalglish and Brendan Rodgers were trying to adapt him to Premier League football. The player himself however wanted to play more and left Liverpool to join Swansea City in 2013.
After three seasons with the The Swans he moved to Newcastle and is currently one of the key players for the Magpies. However, Shelvey admits that if he was more patient, he could have achieved more in Liverpool.
"I was only 21 when I left. I don't think you would find many other players who go there at 17 and leave at 21 and I think that speaks a lot of what I'm like as a character.” Shelvey told Sky Sports.
"I wasn't happy playing one or two games then coming out of the team. I wanted to carry on playing week in, week out.
"When you're playing once and then not playing for six games, I don't care what any footballer says, you don't feel involved. You don't feel part of the team.
"I think that was the feeling I wanted but, in hindsight, should I have stayed? Probably, yeah. Even if it was only for another year or two, just to see how things changed. But it is what it is at the end of the day."
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