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<\/p>\nRio Ngumoha has admirers at Bayern Munich amid the youngster’s reported frustration at a lack of game time at Anfield, despite the 17-year-old making 29 appearances this season<\/p>\n
Rio Ngumoha has admirers in Europe(Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n
Bayern Munich is one of the clubs that admires Liverpool youngster Rio Ngumoha, amid suggestions that he was unhappy with his lack of game time at Anfield this season.<\/p>\n
The youngster \u2014 who does not turn 18 until August \u2014 made 29 appearances in all competitions, but the vast majority of those appearances came as a substitute.<\/p>\n
The BBC<\/a> reports that Ngumoha<\/a> was dissatisfied with his lack of playing time throughout the campaign, but Liverpool<\/a> will clearly be determined to keep hold of him into next season.<\/p>\n Had Ngumoha featured more regularly, he might have had a better chance of making it into Thomas Tuchel’s World Cup squad.<\/p>\n As it is, he was one of a clutch of young players selected to gain experience and help the Three Lions’ senior squad to prepare for the tournament during a pre-World Cup training camp.<\/p>\n Although Ngumoha was not in the 26-man squad for the tournament, he was eligible to feature in Saturday’s friendly against New Zealand, which England won 1-0.<\/p>\n He came on as a half-time substitute in that game and ended up winning the man-of-the-match award, leading many viewers to wonder why he wasn’t included in the 26-man squad that Tuchel thinks will give England the best chance of winning the World Cup.<\/p>\n Ngumoha’s England teammate and Merseyside rival, Jordan Pickford, praised Ngumoha for his showing against New Zealand.<\/p>\n Ngumoha impressed as a substitute against New Zealand(Image: \u00a9Icon Sportswire All Rights Reserved)<\/p>\n \u201cHe was quality, nothing fazed him,” Everton goalkeeper Pickford said.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s had a really good season at Liverpool and the manager gave him his debut and he showed how good he is.<\/p>\n \u201cAll the young lads have been brilliant in training, they have moulded into the squad and helped us massively and it also shows the talent we have in the system.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is a credit to the academies and the pathway we have in English football.\u201d<\/p>\n In the event of injury or illness, Tuchel is permitted to make changes to his squad up until 24 hours before its opening group game against Croatia on June 17.<\/p>\n However, he will only be allowed to choose from the players he included in an original 55-man squad, which was not made public but which Ngumoha is not believed to have been on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rio Ngumoha has admirers at Bayern Munich amid the youngster’s reported frustration at a lack of game time…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,1547,32541,112,49497],"class_list":["post-491684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-rio-ngumoha","tag-sports","tag-transfers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Rio](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/0_GettyImages-2279887831.jpg\")
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