Mo Salah's heir is finally HERE, spectacular winger joins Liverpool first-team

A spectacular winger has joined Liverpool's first-team and he could be Mo Salah's heir.

The Egyptian King is going to be moving on sooner rather than later. Salah has just 18 months left on his contract and he's unlikely to extend beyond those terms.

In fact, he may not even fulfil those terms. There is a possibility that he could leave Anfield for pastures new as early as the summer. Considering his outburst earlier on in the season, it would not be a surprise.

We'd all like him to stay. Salah is an icon at Anfield and he's still one of the best players in the world. Liverpool need players like that. The Reds are better when Salah is on the pitch.

However, if he does leave, it looks like there is already an ideal successor coming through the ranks, who joined the Reds' first-team this week in order to showcase his talents to Arne Slot.

Crucially, he plays in a very similar style to Salah, making him his perfect heir.

It's very rare that Liverpool give teenagers an opportunity to train with the first-team. It's even rarer that they give that opportunity to a 15-year-old.

Even the likes of Rio Ngumoha and Trent Alexander-Arnold 'only' trained with the first-team after they had turned 16-years-old.

Perhaps the only player who had trained with the first-team at a similar age was Raheem Sterling, who was an incredible talent during his time at the academy.

It is those footsteps that young Joshua Abe is following in. Anfield Watch understands the 15-year-old winger joined Liverpool's first-team during a training session this week, as he continues to make his way up the ranks.

This was an opportunity for Slot to get a closer look at Abe, and there is an expectation that he will be involved in more training sessions in the future.

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.

During the last-year or so, fans have been very keen to get a closer look at him after his heroics on England U15 duty. Now it looks like Abe is finally here and we may be seeing clips of him in those first-team training videos very soon.

For those who want to see more of him, he's been on fire in the U18 side this season.

Abe has played eight matches for the academy and he has five goals, two assists and one penalty won, averaging a goal or assist every 68 minutes on the pitch.

Those are remarkable numbers for a player at this level, let alone someone who is not even a first-year scholar yet.

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.