Liverpool “willing to listen” to loan offers for 2 squad players

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Liverpool are reportedly “willing to listen” to loan offers for Trey Nyoni and Rio Ngumoha in January, but the circumstances must benefit the players’ development. As Liverpool’s two highest-rated youngsters currently moving from the academy into the first team, Nyoni and Ngumoha have both found themselves struggling for game time.

Liverpool analyse loan clubs in depth and will want assurances that a move wouldn’t stunt their youngster’s progression. “He’s in a difficult space right now and it’s about keeping him confident, managing his expectations of his involvement with the first team, but it is a difficult space for those young players,” under-21s coach Rob Page told This Is Anfield.

“He’s still a young lad, don’t forget. “He’s had involvement with the first team from an early age and [the challenge] is managing his minutes, it’s giving him game time but it’s maintaining the standards that he sets as well.” Given how highly Ngumoha and Nyoni are rated, regular first team football in the Premier League would be beneficial, but only if the club in question play a similar way.