Incredible wonderkid is coming to join Liverpool's first team, and he's special

Liverpool have been renowned for developing some of the best talent around in recent years and there's another special kid knocking on the club's first team door.

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In the last few years, Liverpool have placed a special emphasis on recruiting players at a young age, bringing them into the club's U18 team and gradually developing them into being recognised as talents with world-class potential.

Harvey Elliott started this trend. He was followed by the likes of Kaide Gordon, who broke records at Anfield becoming the youngest goal-scorer in the club's FA Cup history.

Then there's Ben Doak, who is now one of the best young players in the Championship.

Bobby Clark was sold for millions of pounds. And now we are seeing the likes of Amara Nallo and Trey Nyoni make their mark in the first team.

But the best is yet to come.

Why Rio Ngumoha is joining the first team and why he's even closer to huge chance

Liverpool made one addition to their Champions League squad for the knock-out phase of the competition. Tom Hill, who has departed the club, was removed and in his place Rio Ngumoha was added.

That's an incredible recognition for the 16-year-old. Ngumoha otherwise would be ineligible to play for Liverpool in the Champions League, as he does not qualify as a B-team player, which applies to players under the age of 21 who have played at least two years at the club.

In the future, of course, Ngumoha will qualify and meet those requirements. Just as Harvey Elliott has done and many others.

But for now his mere inclusion is exciting. It's really rather special.

This kind of thing is pretty much unprecedented for a player so young. Ngumoha became only the second youngest player and the youngest starter in the club's history when he played in the FA Cup against Accrington Stanley.

He was brilliant then, turning his opponents inside and out multiple times with his clever footwork.

Ngumoha showed glimpses of why, as Anfield Watch revealed exclusively, Liverpool have been forced to delete clips of him doing the same to first team players in training in a bid to contain the hype that surrounds him.

But it's not going to be easy to contain that hype any longer.

With Ngumoha in the first team squad for the Champions League, he just keeps edging closer and closer to being recognised as a first team player.

Right now he's very much on the cusp of the first team and to say that about a 16 year old kid speaks volumes of his exciting potential.

The numbers reflect this as well. He's averaging an incredible 12 dribbles per 90 for the club's youth sides this season and he's completing 63.8% of his attempts as per Wyscout.

Those are incredible returns for a player playing even in the U18 and U19 categories a year or two above his own age group.

Last year at Chelsea, Ngumoha was training with the first team as a 15 year old. That's why they were so devastated to lose him.

His one vs one ability is simple incredible. It's special. Almost one of a kind. Never has there been so a dominant player in this facet of the game at the club's academy.

Still very raw at the same time, Liverpool's attempts to control the hype can be understood. There's still a long way to go for Ngumoha.

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But oh my, the potential there is simply limitless. Slot has a player on his hands he can turn into one of the very best in the world in years to come.

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