Speaking on the Studs Up podcast, Jonjo Shelvey has opened up on his decision to leave Liverpool, claiming that the Reds sold him for cheap.
The midfielder broke into the first team at Anfield as a young player, but due to the plethora of talent the Reds had, he struggled to get consistent starts for the Merseyside outfit.
Understandably, he wanted to leave the club to get more football, and he said that he didn’t really give the decision much thought.
“I didn’t actually give It much thought, I remember coming in first day back from pre-season and there’d been interest in the summer because I’d had the Euros with the U21s.
“I wanted to go somewhere and not worry about if you have one bad game you’re still going to play, and I’d had that at Charlton, so when you go to Liverpool and you play a game and someone comes back from injury and they’ve got a bigger name and they’re straight back in the team even if you’d done really well, so I wanted to get away from that.”
Shelvey then went to speak about the fact that he felt he moved for cheap, before saying that the move to the Welsh club was a bit of a culture shock.
“I would say I was quite cheap at the time, and I was going into a team that wanted to keep the ball, but going from Liverpool to Swansea was such a culture shock about the way things were run.”
It’s interesting that Shelvey says he feels he moved from Liverpool for cheap.
To be fair to the midfielder, he may have a point, Swansea paid just £5m for his services back in 2013 and three years later he was moving for more than double that amount, joining Newcastle for £12m.
Perhaps Liverpool could have squeezed a bit more value out of Shelvey when they decided to sell him.
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