Growing excitement at Liverpool over BRILLIANT teenage wonderkid

The winds of change are upon us, as Liverpool head into a summer looking to bring in around five players in a make-or-break rebuild.

This is despite the Reds being on track to win the Premier League this season, in Arne Slot's maiden campaign in England.

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Attempting to make sense of it all is an arduous task. A title winning team needing imminent surgery in order to compete again next season. It's bizarre when you say it out loud.

But for Liverpool fans who have followed the team closely, it's not the team needing recruitment that doesn't make sense, it's the Premier League title.

Mohamed Salah is looking set to win the Golden Boot and Playmaker awards, while smashing every record in sight in the process - playing alongside individuals that have delivered incredibly underwhelming seasons. The Egyptian has truly carried the entire team on his back this season.

As such, Liverpool might well look very different next season, but with positions opening up in the squad, opportunities are arising for some of the club's young players to make their mark, before the transfer market is consulted.

Wonderkid excels with leadership qualities beyond his years

The senior men's first team at Liverpool is full of players that you will know incredibly well, they play at the top level and you see them almost every week on TV.

But below that is a complex academy system that is developing young players, homegrown and otherwise. This, in part, is one of the reasons why Liverpool are regarded as one of the biggest clubs in the world.

The top level success is built on the foundation of the youth structure. Players will be brought in via the transfer market, but the main assets the club will look to are in the academy. That's how Trent Alexander-Arnold, Curtis Jones, and Jarrell Quansah, to name a few, have started their careers.

So while Liverpool will hope to bring in players of senior international and European experience this summer, it would be wrong to discount the likelihood that some young players might be given an opportunity to shine.

One such talent is Kieran Morrison, who has been talked up very highly by his coach Barry Lewtas in the U21s set up. The Northern Irishman captained the side in a 2-1 friendly win over Blackburn last week.

Speaking to the club website about Morrison and the U21s as a whole, Lewtas said: "Amara Nallo is our captain but Kieran has really taken on a lot of the responsibility over the last few weeks with his performances.

"His pressing was brilliant, his all-round play was really good and we are trying to develop him in a lot of different ways, like we are with all the boys.

"We forget sometimes that Kieran is a youth-team player - he only turned 18 in November. I think the maturity in his performances over the last number of games has been at a really good level, so this was a little bit of a reward for him.

"He has been working ever so hard and there is a lot more to come from him."

While the chance to be promoted to the Reds' senior team might have passed him by this season, it will be fascinating to see what Slot thinks of the Northern Irish midfielder during pre-season before next season's squad takes shape.

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Liverpool have never been shy to give opportunities to young players and if Morrison can keep up these performances, then despite his age, he could have a big role to play at the club moving forward.

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