Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain wants to reach peak fitness to ensure he can help Liverpool next season.

The English midfielder was a peripheral figure last term and reports have claimed he could leave Anfield this summer.

However, the 28-year-old is focused solely on playing for Liverpool.

"Just be fit and available and be as ready as possible to compete and to play football and then when I'm playing or getting the opportunities to play, I know then that I set high expectations for myself," Oxlade-Chamberlain told the club's website.

"But at the start of things you've just got to make sure that you're fit and available for selection and then you get the chance to put your targets into practice.

"We've got a tough pre-season to get through first so that's first and then I know what qualities I have and the type of player I want to be: attacking and scoring or providing goals, driving the team forward.

"So they're the things I look to do and whatever will happen will happen, so we'll see."