{"id":278104,"date":"2026-06-25T18:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T18:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/278104\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T18:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T18:25:07","slug":"red-bull-new-york-bring-liverpool-product-rhys-williams-in-for-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/278104\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Bull New York bring Liverpool product Rhys Williams in for trial"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Aug 30, 2025; Harrison, New Jersey, USA; A general view of a game ball before the match between the New York Red Bulls and the Columbus Crew at Sports Illustrated Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

In desperate need of bolstering an uncertain back line, Red Bull New York has brought central defender Rhys Williams in for a trial.\n<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old, whose contract expires with the Premier League giants Liverpool on June 30, was seen training with the first team at the Red Bull\u2019s facilities in Morristown, NJ, on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

There has been no decision yet on whether he will be offered a contract.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cRhys has made a really positive impression,\u201d New York head coach Michael Bradley said on Wednesday. \u201cHe\u2019s come in, and he\u2019s had a great attitude. He\u2019s fit in really well with the group\u2026 We\u2019ll continue to evaluate over this next period how to make our team better in every way. Rhys\u2019 experience in the game is potentially of big value. We\u2019ll spend the time with him. We\u2019ll discuss with him and his agent what makes the most sense, and we\u2019ll go from there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Williams has spent most of his life in the Liverpool system, working his way up from the U-10 youth ranks before making his first-team debut during the 2020-21 season under manager Jurgen Klopp, who is now the head of global soccer for Red Bull International.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The last five years have mostly comprised of loans elsewhere in the United Kingdom, from Swansea to Blackpool, to Port Vale and Morecambe.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

Red Bull head of sport Julian de Guzman has already made it known that he is looking to improve his team\u2019s defense this summer. Justin Che and Jahkeele Marshall-Rutty look like bona fide stalwarts to build upon, but the rest of the depth is suspect, whether that be Dylan Nealis, Tim Parker, or Robert Voloder. New York signed Colombian center back Julian Bazan earlier this year, but he has yet to appear with the first team.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Despite sitting in fifth place in the Eastern Conference<\/a> at the World Cup break, Red Bull has conceded 32 goals in 15 matches and has a minus-7 goal differential.<\/p>\n

For more on Rhys Williams and Red Bull New York, visit AMNY.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug 30, 2025; Harrison, New Jersey, USA; A general view of a game ball before the match between…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6583,9,11,10,4505,78007,106858,400,319],"class_list":["post-278104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-mls","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-red-bulls","tag-red-bull","tag-rhys-williams","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}