Liverpool wonderkid makes it 12 goals in 10 to move on brink of first-team

Liverpool’s academy production line is poised to deliver again as 19-year-old winger Kieran Morrison tormented Premier League 2 defences with a dozen goals in his last ten outings, a sequence that has staff at Kirkby convinced the next step is imminent.

Morrison’s latest strike came in Sunday’s 5-1 defeat to Crystal Palace, taking his personal tally to 16 across all competitions this term and setting a club record for the highest youth-league goal return in 16 years. Three assists in the same ten-match burst underline a player who has outgrown the age-group scene.

The Belfast-born attacker has captained Barry Lewtas’ Under-21s throughout the surge and has already sampled senior air: Arne Slot handed him a brief debut cameo earlier in the campaign and the youngster has since been a fixture on the first-team bench for fixtures against Galatasaray and Brighton.

International recognition followed on 16 March when Northern Ireland manager Michael O’Neill drafted Morrison into a senior squad for the first time, citing the winger’s “prolific” form ahead of a World Cup 2026 play-off semi-final against Italy.

Contracted until June 2027, Morrison is now discussing a new three-year deal after Liverpool rebuffed January loan interest from Bundesliga side Schalke to retain him as emergency cover following injuries to Florian Wirtz and Alexander Isak.

With the club hierarchy increasingly confident that another incremental leap in maturity will make Morrison a bona-fide first-team option, the teenager’s fairytale season could yet finish on the biggest stage of all.