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Mark Jones

Liverpool attacker reveals plans to quit club after Barcelona transfer talks

Liverpool attacker Bobby Adekanye has confirmed that he has no interest in renewing his contract at the club having failed to make the breakthrough into Jurgen Klopp's first-team.

The Dutch youth international, 20, has regularly impressed in the club's youth sides since joining from Barcelona in the summer of 2015.

And he now says that Barca are interested in re-signing him in the summer, when he will be out of contract.

Adekanye was left dismayed by Klopp's failure to call him up for last summer's pre-season tour to the USA, and seemingly suggested that he went back on a promise to him in doing so.

Bobby Adekanye is set to leave Liverpool (Liverpool FC via Getty Images)

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“(Being left out of the pre-season tour to the US) was disappointing and it has contributed to the fact that I do not want to renew my contract,” he told Dutch outlet Voetbal Zone .

”If they promise such things and it doesn’t happen, I don’t know what will happen if I sign for three years.

”That confidence is no longer there, even though I still greatly respect the club. I expected that I would get a chance at Liverpool sooner.

"I don’t think I appeared in (Klopp’s) plans. If so, I have to look for something else.”

Klopp overlooked him for last summer's US tour (RONALD WITTEK/EPA-EFE/REX)

Adekanye confirmed that there has been plenty of interest in him, including from Italian side Lazio as well as former club Barca.

"It (Lazio) is one of the clubs that is interested, but it is not yet 100% decided," he continued.

"I also heard from Barcelona , ​​in the Netherlands Willem II came by. I can't name the entire list of clubs now, because then we will be busy tomorrow.

The winger says he has interest from Italy, Spain and the Netherlands (Nick Taylor/Liverpool FC)

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"But there is interest from, among others, the Netherlands, Italy and Spain.

"In the summer I am going to talk about it with my family and business manager Junior Minguella.

"I am not worried that I have no club."

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