Liverpool outcast Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain may be planning his exit from the club.

The midfielder, who also featured on the left wing at times this season, is not first choice under boss Jurgen Klopp.

While he was starting matches for a stretch in the winter, the arrival of Cody Gakpo has meant he is back to being a substitute.

He stated, per the Liverpool Echo: "I'm getting to that stage of my career now where I'm not a kid anymore and I just want to stay at the top for as long as I can. I suppose [fatherhood has changed me] a little bit, yes because you're doing it for more than yourself at the point when you have a child and become a father.

"A big motivation for me is trying to stay at a really good level for as long as possible so that my boy can see me at that level. My dad did it but he didn't have me until he was 32. So by the time he was 35, well, he was clinging on by that point! My football memories of him being a superstar are mainly from the old Masters football (indoor tournaments).

"I'm 29 now and my son is coming up towards two, so he should be able to remember me as a Premier League player and it gives you that little bit of motivation to stay at that level and make your son proud. Hopefully I can try that and do that for him. I guess it's a new-found motivation in that way."

"It's a tough one because I've had such good times here and on one hand you could say I've won every domestic trophy, the FA Cup four times now luckily enough and the League Cup last year - that was the one I hadn't got," he added to the club's matchday program.

"So in that regard I'm very happy but every time you step on to that pitch and enter a competition, you want to win it again. On a personal note I just want to play at the best level for as long as possible."