When addressing his Liverpool exit, Oxlade-Chamberlain made it clear his priority is to play regularly after spending the past two years limited to a bit-part role under Jurgen Klopp.
“I still want success, I’ve had a taste of it here, they’ve been the best years ever,” he said in May. “So, if by any chance, I can have another sniff of achieving anything like that again then I’d bite your hand off.
“I think I need to go and play somewhere as consistently as possible. They say you’re coming into your peak at 29, so I want to go and test myself, play consistently somewhere.”
“I’m still hungry, I still feel I have a lot of games left in me and a lot of energy left in me. I don’t like to say a point to prove, but that’s always been my attitude.”