Rhian Brewster is looking to make his first-team debut for Liverpool this year.
The 18-year-old is one of the most highly-fancied youngsters in England, and signed his first professional contract with the Reds in June, tying him to Anfield for the foreseeable future.
Recovering from two surgeries on his ankle earlier this year, Brewster will be ready for football again some time before Christmas – and that won’t be a moment too soon.
Speaking to ESPN, Brewster said:
I wanted to be playing first-team football and if that meant going, I’d have gone,
But I felt it was right to stay at Liverpool and prove that I’m good enough to play in the first team.
I hope to make my debut and play quite a bit this season. I’ve been injured since January. That’s been hard, but Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain has helped me as we’ve been doing rehab together, and the manager has integrated me with the first team even though I’ve been injured.
Brewster shot to stardom at the 2017 U17 World Cup, as he scored hat-tricks against the United States and Brazil as he fired England into the final, where he scored the opening goal in a 5-2 rout of Spain.
The forward revealed how his performance put him on the radar of his club manager:
[Klopp] was texting me throughout the [U17] World Cup, then he called me after we won to say congratulations,
The first time he texted me, I thought: ‘Who’s this?’ I know one JK and that’s Jurgen — it can’t be!
He said: ‘It’s the boss’ and told me to save his number! I thought: ‘Wow, he cares.’
With a packed schedule of games ahead this year, Brewster may yet find his way onto the pitch at Anfield before very long.
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