I owe Frank Lampard a lot.

I'm a massive OKC Thunder fan.

My debut was all a bit of a whirlwind.

I have always felt like a Liverpool player.

I knew I wanted to play for Wales from an early age.

Making my debut at such a young age was a massive thing for me.

I'm finally in the Premier League which is what I've worked towards.

I always pride myself on goals and if I can keep scoring, I'll be happy.

I wanted to come to a good football team so I could showcase what I could do.

I want to play Premier League football and with a great team like Bournemouth.

I was delighted when I heard Bournemouth wanted to take me and I've started off well.

I want to play for Liverpool in the Premier League on a regular basis, I will never deny that.

Playing for Wales or making my debut for Liverpool, it was excitement, a feeling of freedom even.

Every Liverpool fan and Liverpool player wants to go to Old Trafford and win every time we go there.

To to be learning from a legend like Frank Lampard is fantastic. I'm soaking up everything he's telling me.

Even if the team is not doing well and I can still pop up with a goal or an assist, then I'm making a difference.

I stay out after training and practice hitting balls from different angles just in case the chances come in a game.

It's always going to be difficult to break in to a team with big stars like Mo Salah, Roberto Firmino and Sadio Mane.

It's nice to see young lads doing well but when it's your mates you have grown up and played with it makes it even better.

It's everyone's dream to represent Wales and when you get that chance, which I did at a young age, you've got to relish it.

There were plenty of clubs wanting me but as soon as my agent Lee Robinson told me Derby were interested I had a good feeling.

When I'm playing for Wales Under-21s I'm always trying to do my best so if the manager is watching he can see I'm playing well.

When you're playing week in, week out, you're feeling fit, you feel strong, that's what you want. You find a rhythm, if you like.

Yeah, I'm big into Drake as a lot of lads are. I've been to a few of his concerts and I usually have him playing on the way to games.

I was very young when I made my debut. I was only 16 and it was a bit of a shock that I was involved, but there were a lot of injuries.

Chris Coleman and Ryan Giggs have shown that they're not afraid of giving young players a chance if you're ready and you're good enough.

As soon as I found out that Hull City were interested I really wanted to make the move, so thankfully everything got done fairly quickly.

I was in a struggling team in League One and I've seen how tough it is when you are trying to scrape out points at the bottom of the league.

Being at Liverpool since the age of eight, it's always been my dream to break into the first team and be playing at Anfield week in, week out.

To see Liverpool win the Premier League would be fantastic being a Liverpool fan. But to get to the Euros with Wales would be just as special.

Going out to France three years ago to watch Euro 2016 was massive and when I was there, stood in the crowd, I wanted to be part of that as a player.

I wasn't the smartest in school - I was always sort of middle of the class - but when it came to football, I was always driven to be a success there.

When Hull came calling it was a great, great move for me and when I went there I managed to get some goals and assists and get a senior Wales call-up.

There was never a question of who I was going to play for. The English showed a bit of interest, but I was born in Wales raised in Wales so there was never any doubt about that.

I learned that in senior football it's about managing the game. People are playing for contracts and playing for careers, so when you're 1-0 up or 2-0 up, you have to see the game out.

The big stadiums, sold-out crowds and games with massive things riding on them; as players these are games you want to be playing in. It's a chance to write your name in the history books.

I went up to Melwood full-time and was training with the first team day in and day out but never getting in the squad. That was when I went on loan to Hull and I felt my career really started.

I think I'm a leader in a different way. I'm not going to do it with my mouth on the pitch. Maybe if the team needs a bit of inspiration during the game, I can provide that and push them forward.

I think playing in front of crowds and in a competitive league, getting a feel for the senior dressing room where there's points up for grabs every week and players are fighting for their futures helps.

When I wasn't in the Wales first team, I was always with the under-19s and under-21s and the coaches were always big on keeping the pathway open for us younger players to make our way up to the first team.

Numbers have always been massive to me. I was told at an early age that if you affect the game, and if your numbers are good in terms of goals, assists, chances created, the manager finds it hard to bring you off or to not involve you.

My first loan spell I was 18. I went to Crewe, and I felt I'd scored all these goals for Liverpool's youth teams and I'd go to League One and it would be the same. I quickly found out that it wasn't. It took me to come back, captain the U23 side for a year and a half to really get my confidence back.

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