Liverpool midfielder who 'hated' club was banned from wearing Everton shirt in training

A former Liverpool youth coach has revealed the identity of a player who would "refuse" to wear a Reds shirt, such was his dislike for the club.

Midfielder Jordan Rossiter joined Liverpool's academy at the age of six and would rise through the ranks and eventually make his first-team debut aged 17 in a dramatic Carabao Cup 14-13 penalty shootout win over Middlesbrough, during which he opened the scoring. The 26-year-old would go on to make a further four appearances at senior level before being released in 2016.

Rossiter's days with the Reds may now be over, and he now plays for Joey Barton's Bristol Rovers side in League One, but his actions during his time at Liverpool have been brought to the table by Karl Robinson. Robinson began his coaching career working with his boyhood club, later managing Football League including MK Dons and Oxford United, though not everyone relished the opportunity to represent the team they grew up supporting.

Robinson has now opened up on his experience of working with Rossiter, who is said to have "hated" Liverpool and was not afraid to make his true feelings about the club known.

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“We also had Jordan Rossiter who was a massive Blue Nose," Robinson told the I Had Trails Once podcast. "He was a massive Everton fan so we had to ban him from wearing an Everton kit in the gym, but he hated Liverpool so much that he would just wear his Celtic kit instead because he couldn’t bear to put a Liverpool kit on.

“He refused to wear the Liverpool kit because he was such a big Everton fan and that isn’t uncommon because so many players in