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Williams was released by boyhood team Manchester United at the end of the 2023-24 season after his contract expired and has spent this campaign watching the game from the outside.

Liverpool are his boyhood club, so I can understand why leaving them is more of a dilemma, but sometimes as a player you have to make these decisions about where your future lies.

They play Manchester United on Tuesday and the finish line is in sight for my boyhood team to finish third and secure Champions League football.

On Sunday, also at Wembley, he headed his boyhood club Newcastle ahead against Liverpool in the Carabao Cup final as they won 2-1 to lift a first trophy in 56 years.

From being rejected by his boyhood club Newcastle United as a youngster to pushing supermarket trolleys, he could easily have given up on his football career before it had really begun.