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Jordan Rossiter’s profile on the Liverpool Academy website is 18 months old - but revealing nonetheless.

As the young midfielder heads towards an Anfield exit - and a new career in the Scottish Premiership with Rangers - it is worth reflecting on how he described his “ultimate dream in football?"

The answer was pretty straightforward: “To play in the first team for Liverpool and England.”

One part of that dream came true at Anfield, albeit in a limited sense.

The 19-year-old from Everton Valley made his debut aged 17 in that famous Capital One Cup penalty-fest against Middlesbrough at Anfield in September 2014, scoring from 30 yards inside 10 minutes, becoming the club’s second youngest ever scorer in the process.

He would start just two more games for Liverpool, both in this season’s Europa League under Brendan Rodgers, in Bordeaux and at Anfield against Sion. He added two substitute appearances, notably when making his Premier League debut against Arsenal in August in an impressive last 20 minutes at the Emirates.

It was his commitment to that other dream - England - which has perhaps dealt a significant blow to Rossiter’s Liverpool future.

Having progressed through U16, U17 and U18 levels, Rossiter was helping England qualify for the U19 European Championships in the international break early last October while Jurgen Klopp was making his dramatic entrance at Anfield.

He would play three 90-minute games in six days against Macedonia, Finland and Italy as England achieved their goal.

Rossiter? His workload saw him return to Melwood with a hamstring injury which would keep him out for another month and a half.

Jurgen Klopp was furious with the FA - “these young players are our future. If we handle them like horses then we get horses” - but for Rossiter the timing could not have been worse.

A few days later Klopp’s first Liverpool squad at Spurs included the likes of Academy players Connor Randall, Joao Carlos Teixeira and Jerome Sinclair. Rossiter is entitled to think he could surely have been among them.

From that point perhaps it was just never meant to be for Klopp and Rossiter.

The player made his comeback with 60 minutes against Man United for the U21s on the last day of November before completing 90 minutes against Everton a week later.

It brought him back into first team contention and his only appearance under Klopp came on December 12 as he replaced Jordan Henderson for the last 15 minutes in the Stade de Tourbillon against Sion.

It sadly prompted a recurrence of his hamstring problems - albeit on the other leg - and he hasn’t appeared in a Liverpool shirt since, despite being back in training recently.

A boy who first joined the Reds at U6 level will leave with his potential largely untapped. A lad who made his debut for the U18s on his 15th birthday and was playing in the U21s at just 16. Academy player of the year in 2014 aged 17. The boyhood Evertonian will not be part of any renewed Scouse heartbeat for the Reds.

In darkest winter, in the midst of his injury crisis and fixture hell, Klopp could sorely have done with him.

Instead the likes of Kevin Stewart and Pedro Chirivella have stepped in and taken their chance, both now the recipients of lengthy new contracts keeping them at Anfield until 2020.

Anyone who watched them regularly in the U21s would have been surprised, if not astonished, at such a scenario - Rossiter, a year older of course, always seemed well ahead of Chirivella in development while the older, reliable Stewart’s time seemed to have passed.

Brendan Rodgers wouldn’t let Rossiter go on loan last summer, believing him to be a valuable player for the first team squad, that even after Rossiter had just come back in July from his first significant injury, ankle ligament surgery which required six months out.

The Scottish Premiership may prove a perfect hunting ground for his mix of tenacity, ferocious passion and no little ability.

He will leave with the good wishes of Liverpool fans, his journey another sign of football’s harsh realities.