Report: Liverpool to follow up Doak signing with 2 more, including 7th best youngster in world

Thu 31 March 2022 19:15, UK Updated Thu 31 March 2022 21:26, UK

Liverpool have won the race to sign Ben Doak from Celtic, according to .

The 16-year-old winger will reportedly move to Anfield, having turned down offers from a host of other clubs.

Doak has already featured twice for the Bhoys’ first-team.

He is also a Scotland U17 international who scored a hat-trick against Georgia earlier this week.

Doak will not be eligible to feature for the Reds until next season.

However, a picture of him holding up a Liverpool t-shirt with ‘Doak 7’ on the back has been doing the rounds on social media.

The Reds will reportedly pay a six-figure compensation fee, understood to be in around £600,000 ($790,000) to Celtic.

Liverpool to make two more signings after Ben Doak?

In addition, it looks as though Liverpool aren’t done yet in terms of bolstering their academy ranks.

Goal.com claims the Reds have two more young signings in the pipeline.

Trent Kone-Doherty, a 15-year-old who currently plays with Derry City, is reportedly next in line.

The outlet claims Liverpool are set to secure a pre-contract agreement with the Irish youth international winger, who turns 16 in the summer.

In addition, the Reds are reportedly still hopeful of concluding a deal to sign Fabio Carvalho.

Liverpool failed to finalise that transfer on the last day of the January window.

However, the Reds are apparently confident of agreeing a compensation fee with Fulham which would remove the need for a tribunal.

There was optimism that Liverpool could make it two great January signings after landing Luis Diaz.

Indeed, the 19-year-old reportedly had a medical with the Reds.

However, Liverpool sadly ran out of time on transfer deadline day.

Both Carvalho’s move to Anfield and his temporary switch back to Fulham had to be completed before the deadline.

In February, ranked who they thought were the 50 most exciting youngsters in the game.

And Carvalho made it to number seven, higher than the likes of Endrick, Florian Wirtz and Eduardo Camavinga.