Ex-Liverpool defender insists he made right decision joining Premier League rival

Liverpool yet allowed Sepp van den Berg to permission permanently successful the summertime aft respective indebtedness spells with the Brentford defender backing his determination to get much minutes

Sepp van den Berg insists helium made the close telephone by quitting Liverpool having joined Brentford successful the summer.

The Dutchman had a succession of indebtedness spells distant whilst helium was connected the books astatine Anfield, but helium ne'er got a accordant changeable successful the Reds first-team. His banal continued to emergence passim his periods distant from Liverpool but helium take to question a imperishable move, alternatively than oculus a relation connected Merseyside.

Van den Berg made it wide that helium wanted and needed regular football. Since moving to the Bees helium has started 12 of their 14 games.

The 22-year-old acknowledged the prime of the players successful Liverpool's backline and knew helium needed to question pastures new, but didn't privation different impermanent determination away, which is wherefore helium sought a imperishable location successful the capital.

He said: “I was precise wide from the commencement that I wanted to play this season. At Liverpool you person 2 of the champion centre-backs successful the world astatine the moment. To maine it was the close infinitesimal to leave, I’m astatine the property erstwhile I needed to play.

“I’ve done it for galore years going retired connected loan. It was clip for maine to marque the imperishable determination and found myself arsenic a Premier League subordinate and that’s what I’m doing truthful far. I made the close determination (but) inactive a agelong mode to go.”

Van den Berg had chopped a frustrated fig successful the summertime arsenic Liverpool continued to clasp retired for the highest price. They signed the defender erstwhile helium was a teen for conscionable implicit £4million, but yet moved him connected for £25m.

The subordinate felt that Liverpool's demands successful the model was pricing retired definite clubs and, whilst helium was chuffed they valued him truthful highly, helium was acrophobic it would hamper him.

He said: "For the terms they privation for me, hmmm…Liverpool whitethorn deliberation it is close arsenic I had a bully season, if they privation £20-£25million, that is simply a batch more. Hopefully we tin find a way. Maybe I stay, possibly I go. The archetypal absorption from maine is that it was rather high! But it is besides a compliment."

Brentford made moves to motion 2 of Liverpool's fringe players successful the summertime with Fabio Carvalho, erstwhile of Fulham, besides making the switch.

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