Jordan Rossiter Is A Blue!

Waterford FC are delighted to announce the signing of former Liverpool & Rangers midfielder Jordan Rossiter.

The 28 year-old midfielder becomes the second signing of Blues’ summer transfer window, after Finlay Armstrong put pen to paper last week to become John Coleman’s first signing.

Armstrong is now joined with Rossiter, a midfielder with a huge wall of experience behind him having spent time with the first-teams at both Liverpool FC & Rangers FC.

The Liverpudlian joined his hometown club at just six years of age, spending over 13 years at the Reds before moving on. During his time at Anfield, Rossiter was first named on the Liverpool bench in their 2-1 defeat to Chelsea at Stamford Bridge in the Premier League at the end of 2013.

In September 2014, Rossiter made his first-team debut in Liverpool’s League Cup match against Middlesbrough at Anfield age just 17, where he opened the scoring on his debut after just ten minutes – latching onto Ricky Lambert’s through ball before finding the back of the net.

In August of the 2015/16 season, Rossiter made his Premier League debut, coming on for then Brendan Rogers’ Reds away to Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium in a 0-0 draw.

The following month, Rossiter made his European debut for Liverpool against French side Bordeaux as he played 80 minutes in their 1-1 draw in French city in their Europa League group stage clash.

Rossiter made another European group stage appearance against Sion in that 2015/16 injury hit season, before departing his hometown club to sign for Rangers FC in the Scottish Premiership for the 2016/17 season.

Jordan made 16 appearances for Rangers over the course of his three-year spell with the Scottish giants, before first Bury Town on loan & then Fleetwood Town. His move to Fleetwood was made permanent for the 2020/21 season, being made Fleetwood captain in 2021 for the Cod Army.

He joined Bristol Rovers in 2022, before having spells at Shrewsbury Town & Oldham Athletic most recently.

Now Rossiter makes the move across the Irish Sea to the RSC where he will look to play an integral role in John Coleman’s side for the second-half of our 2025 League of Ireland campaign.

Speaking to the club after signing for the Blues, Rossiter gave his thoughts on signing for the Blues & getting to work closely with John Coleman & Danny Ventre:

“I’m delighted to be here, I’m looking forward to getting going & hopefully getting going as soon as I can.

It was a phone call with John Coleman & Danny Ventre. I know them both quite well, and just the way the club is going. I spoke to a few people here before I signed, so I knew it was a real exciting project here. I watched Friday’s 2-0 win in the Derby against Cork, so I can’t wait to get going now”.

I’m looking forward to working with John & Danny. I’ve obviously played against John’s sides a few times when I was at Fleetwood & he was Accrington Stanley. I know what his teams are about – always going to be competitive & I’m looking forward to playing for him”

I can bring a good bit of experience to the group. I just love playing football wherever that is, so whether that’s Liverpool, Rangers or Waterford, I just want to enjoy my football, so I’m looking forward to getting out there on the RSC pitch.”