I am still struggling get my head around what haunts me about my Liverpool career

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"When I did my ACL at Liverpool, that was in 2018. I can remember going into interviews in 2021, and people still asking me about my ACL."I always felt like whenever I got injured, it was always a bad one.

I didn’t get many hamstring injuries or anything like that – it was always a knee (injury) that kept me out for a spell of time.“They always seem to happen when I was flying. At that point (in 2018), I was really doing well, so when I got the injury, it was a bigger story.“The whole injury-prone thing, I’ve always struggled to get my head around that, because injury-prone in my head was lads that are unfortunate and always picking up hamstring and then calf injuries, and their body failing them in that way."My injuries were always contact – I got smashed, and I got injured, and it always seemed to be them that kept me out for a long spell.

I come back, and I get to that level, which I think shows you’re not an injury-prone player. When you do a big knee (injury) other things start happening, and you have to adapt.”Oxlade-Chamberlain was only 16 when he made his debut for Southampton and moved to Arsenal less than 18 months later, and made his England senior debut aged just 18.And when asked on the latest Fozcast podcast with Ben Foster about youngsters breaking into the first team, he pointed to former Liverpool team-mate Curtis Jones as an example of how it can be done."A big thing for young players when they break into the first team, which is quite daunting, is that your character gets tested early," said Oxlade-Chamberlain.