Liverpool think they’ve now got Rio Ngumoha 2.0 coming through to the first-team ‘very soon’

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Surely if the bid was big enough they'd have to at least think about it… Josh Abe could quickly move up to the Liverpool first-team Abe rejected the likes of Man City and Chelsea on his way to signing up at Liverpool, and as Lynch told Anfield Index on Friday, the example of Ngumoha cannot have been far from anyone’s mind.“The best comparison I can make, albeit it might be unfair about someone who’s only taken their first steps in the first-team right now, but he’s seen as Rio Ngumoha level talent.” he said. So, there’s real excitement around him and he’s clearly an option to go on the pre-season tour this summer as well.

It’s seen as absolutely massive and I’m utterly convinced, injuries permitted, that this kid will be in the first-team very soon.”Photo by Nick Taylor/Liverpool FC/Liverpool FC via Getty ImagesREAD MORE: Rio Ngumoha has already made it clear whether he’d think about leaving Liverpool for Bayern MunichAccording to Lynch, Liverpool almost certainly see Abe as being on a pathway to the first-team, and will look to give him opportunities if his development continues as expected.“Liverpool will have spelled out a similar pathway [to Ngumoha] for Abe, and they will live up to it, I don’t doubt it,” he said. “That’s why I’m so convinced we’ll see him in the first-team very, very soon because Liverpool will have spelled that out to him that that is going to happen.

“I do wonder with Morrison what exactly the thinking is, how much of a first-team role he’s going to have in the long-term. “He might see sticking at Liverpool as a worthwhile option to go and get loan experience, and when he’s back training in and around the first-team.