Report reveals which young Liverpool centre back will be monitored closely this season

Liverpool will monitor young centre back Nathaniel Phillips’s progress extremely close in the upcoming season, according to the Liverpool Echo.

The newspaper claims that the 22-year-old, who has never made a senior appearance for the Reds, will be one of the centre halves watched most closely by Jurgen Klopp and co.

The other centre back whose name is mentioned is summer signing Sepp van den Berg, who was obviously brought in to eventually compete for a first team spot.

However, exciting centre half Ki-Jana Hoever, perhaps the name Liverpool fans expected to see in Phillips’s place...