A FORMER Liverpool prospect who value the membership £1MILLION at 16 is now unemployed after being launched from non-league Maidstone.
Yusuf Mersin joined the Reds as a teen after impressing at Championship aspect Millwall in 2011.
Yusuf Mersin is with out a membership after being launched by MaidstoneCredit score: Getty
He reportedly joined the membership in a seven-figue deal regardless of his younger age.
He made the transfer to Anfield whereas finding out for his GCSEs and his dad congratulated on his son’s transfer by Liverpool legend Kenny Dalglish.
Now 28, he has discovered himself on the trace for a brand new membership after being launched by Maidstone after two-years on the membership.
Mersin spent the latest season out on mortgage at Welling United.
He advised KentOnline: “The papers have been saying I value £1 million.
“It’s good to have that, though I didn’t see any of the cash.
“It’s mad trying again, interested by it now.
“It was all a bit surreal on the time. I used to be nonetheless in school and instantly I used to be leaving all the things behind to start out a brand new life up north.
“I didn’t actually know what was going to occur.”
He spent three years at Liverpool, however by no means made a primary workforce look earlier than leaving for Turkish aspect Kasımpaşa in 2014.
Nonetheless, Mersin believed that he was near getting a brand new contract on the membership after taking part in for the youth sides.
He added: “On the finish of my contract I used to be verbally advised I’d in all probability get a brand new deal however I went over on my ankle badly and injured myself, which did for that.
“[Simon] Mignolet drove me house from Melwood to the place I used to be staying and he didn’t have to do this.
“He was an amazing keeper and an amazing man, so I’ll all the time do not forget that.
“It was an unbelievable time, going into these workforce conferences, an unbelievable expertise. I nonetheless really feel connected to the membership now.
“My missus is Scouse and all her household are mad soccer followers, and I nonetheless communicate to the first-team goalkeeper coach, John Achterberg, and among the different guys there.”
After leaving Kasımpaşa, he went on to play for Crawley City and Dover Athletic earlier than becoming a member of Maidstone.