Trey Nyoni has been garnering some serious plaudits already since his September move to Liverpool last year.
Speaking about the 17-year-old’s promise at Anfield, David Ornstein highlighted how impressed Arne Slot has been with the young midfielder in pre-season.
The journalist had been responding to points raised by Jamie Carragher and Paul Scholes over the Reds’ options in the middle of the park.
“The work that is taking place, which is more than just signing players – there is more to a football club than that – the likes of Arne Slot and Richard Hughes are said to have impressed from not just inside Liverpool but outside too. People who know them in the industry and come across them,” The Athletic reporter spoke on The Overlap.
“There’s another part to this, which we haven’t mentioned, which is the young players at Liverpool, who basically won the League Cup for them last season. Some of them have left and will go on loans, and you [Paul Scholes] talk about that position [central midfield] specifically.
“There’s a player there and you never want to heap expectation on it [but] Trey Nyoni, who came from Leicester, has really impressed in pre-season and with Slot in particular from what I hear. So he’ll probably get minutes in there and Liverpool are a club that hand genuine opportunities to young players.”
The Merseysiders have opted to hold fire on a new signing in the No.6 position after failing to land their top target in Real Sociedad’s Martin Zubimendi.
Ornstein noted earlier: “It wasn’t the case of, ‘if we don’t get Zubimendi, we’re just going to pivot to somebody else for the sake of it’. They really wanted him specifically.
“Unless they find somebody that they’re completely happy with, they’ll wait and bide their time and be patient and be brave about that, because it’s going against what a lot of the public and fanbases want, which is transfers, transfers, transfers.”
