He's coming! Liverpool's Mo Salah heir is now on his way to the first-team | OneFootball

The club's owners have always wanted Liverpool to be functioning organically. They have invested a lot of money in the club's academy to ensure Liverpool don't always have to enter the transfer market in order to sign players.

In the last decade, there's no denying the club has benefitted greatly from developing players either good enough to play for the first-team or good enough to be sold on for massive money.

But even an academy as impressive as Liverpool's has not seen a player of Joshua Abe's ilk.

Recently, the 15-year-old was training with the first-team in back-to-back weeks.

Liverpool have regarded him as one of the brightest young talents in the academy for a while now. Abe has been at the club since pre-academy days and it feels like all this time he has been groomed to one day take on Salah's throne.

During the last-year or so, if you're a follower of academy football, you will have seen Abe's trademark ability to cut into his left-foot from the right-wing and regularly score spectacular goals for England at youth level.

Now the youngster is doing it for the U18s. Abe scored a hat-trick at the weekend against Derby County's U18 side taking his tall for the season to eight goals, three assists and one penalty won in just 10 games for the U18s.

It's a remarkable record for someone so young. Abe is averaging a goal or assist every 58 minutes so far this season.

But like we said, what makes Abe so special is that he is very similar in profile to Salah.

He's left-footed and he loves to come inside and get into goal-scoring situations. He is also terrifying when he cuts into his left foot from the right.

If you look at some of the goals he has scored this season, they are very Salah esque in their delivery.

So, it feels like the stars are aligning for Liverpool. Salah may be on his way out, but Abe is on his way in and he looks destined to take the Egyptian's throne.