Liverpool signal teenage expertise to first skilled contract forward of goalkeeping shake-up

Liverpool have signed teenage goalkeeper Kornel Misciur to his first skilled contract, handing him the chance to show himself worthy of a future first-team place.

Misciur turned 17 in April of this 12 months, having joined the membership’s academy ranks from Hull Metropolis in 2023. He’s already Liverpool’s beginning goalkeeper at Premier League 2 degree after being promoted to the Beneath-21 squad this season, even captaining the facet final outing towards Manchester United.

The younger stopper holds the identical standing for UEFA Youth League video games.

Misciur was born in England, in Scarborough to be exact, to Polish dad and mom in 2007, which makes him eligible to symbolize each nationwide groups.

Already forward of fellow academy goalkeepers Harvey Davies and Reece Trueman within the junior pecking order, his progress seems to be good and Liverpool’s senior goalkeeping division is about for a shake up within the not-too-distant future.

Alisson is at the moment sidelined with a hamstring downside, his fourth muscle-related harm absence throughout the final 11 months alone. It has introduced uncertainty to the 32-year-old Brazilian’s long-term place on the membership, particularly with a level of future-proofing already carried out within the type of a pre-arranged £29m switch for Valencia and Georgia goalkeeper Giorgi Mamardashvili.

Caoimhin Kelleher has once more been filling in for Alisson through the newest absence. However there may be an acceptance now with Mamardashvili on his approach in 2025 that the Republic of Eire worldwide won’t ever be Liverpool’s primary goalkeeper.

Kelleher not too long ago acknowledged that as he’s given extra alternative to shine in Alisson’s absence, it has the potential to extend what Liverpool will anticipate for him within the switch market. The Republic of Eire worldwide was resigned to leaving through the summer season as a result of his scenario was “by no means going to alter” and he wasn’t going to “be completely happy sitting on the bench”, however a transfer by no means materialised.

Equally, nevertheless, he additionally insisted there are worse issues than staying “at a membership like Liverpool”.

The Reds moreover have Vitezslav Jaros within the first-team squad this season. The 23-year-old Czechia worldwide was catapulted into the highlight earlier this month when he made his senior Liverpool debut as a 79th minute alternative for the injured Alisson in a win over Crystal Palace, with Kelleher already unavailable for that recreation resulting from sickness.

Jaros spent the second half of final season impressing on mortgage at Sturm Graz, which earned him a Euro 2024 call-up. But it surely was his first recreation in English soccer in two years, since a League Two mortgage spell at Stockport County that noticed him lose his place resulting from a minor harm after which fail to reclaim it.

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