Liverpool defender Sepp van den Berg may be ready to go out and find a new team.

The 22-year-old has been at the Reds since he was a teenager when he signed from PEC Zwolle.

While he has featured a few times in the first team, he is very much on the periphery.

Van den Berg, who has enjoyed loan spells at Preston, Schalke, and now Mainz, admitted he may have to leave the Reds for good.

"If I go back to Liverpool, they might want me to stay," Van den Berg told Voetbal Nieuws.

"If I see that I won't get much game time, then I might choose to leave. It's really important to me that I play.

"In previous years, I didn't feel like I would be starting next to Virgil [van Dijk}. I don't know yet what my chances will be like next summer. I think I'm doing well. I can handle playing at Liverpool. I can compete.

“But being a starter is different. Virgil and [Ibrahima] Konate are not easy to beat. I know it will be hard."