Teenage striker Paul Glatzel has been pictured training with Liverpool’s first-team at Melwood as the Premier League leaders close in on a return to action, as provided by the club’s official website.
Rhian Brewster is not the only fresh-faced goal-machine who’s rapid rise on the Merseyside has been threatened by ill-timed injury blow.
Brewster was on the verge of forcing his way into Jurgen Klopp’s plans before he suffered a broken leg in early 2018. And, as luck would have it, Glatzel then suffered a similar fate just a few months later, rupturing his ACL after scoring a staggering 28 goals for the U18s during a superb 2018/19 campaign.
After ten months on the sidelines, one of the most promising young forwards in British football is on the comeback trail.
And a first-team debut may be on the cards too. Glatzel has been pictured working up a sweat alongside Mo Salah, Joe Gomez, Naby Keita and co as Liverpool’s stars step up their preparations with a breakthrough appearing in the Premier League’s much-discussed Project Restart plans.
“When he is back he will be one of my boys because I really like what I saw,” Klopp said last summer of a Liverpool-born starlet he has described as an ‘unbelievable’ talent.
With an unprecedented financial crisis likely to stop Liverpool from breaking the bank on a big-name number nine this summer, do not bet against Klopp promoting Glatzel to the role as Roberto Firmino’s understudy.
As Trent Alexander-Arnold, Mario Gotze and Robert Lewandowski will tell you, this is a coach who is more than happy to put his faith in youth.
If Liverpool wrap up the Premier League title within days of the season’s resumption, Glatzel will surely be afforded the opportunity to make his long-awaited bow in that famous red shirt.
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