As the next Jürgen Klopp project, Liverpool might buy a playmaker who is a carbon duplicate of Marco Asensio and Mason Mount.

Although youth football is not always a reliable indicator of the finest players coming out of academies around the world, the U19s European Championship has in the past assisted in identifying some elite talents.

There were plenty of stars to keep an eye on with scouts from clubs throughout Europe and beyond in Slovakia for the competition this summer, which was won by England last week and featured two Liverpool players in Jarell Quansah and Luke Chambers.

Israel, which faced England in the championship match after defeating France en way, had three players chosen for the official UEFA Team of the Tournament by the organization’s “technical observer team.”

An attacking midfielder from Maccabi Tel Aviv named Oscar Gloukh joined Liverpool’s Quansah, Chelsea’s Harvey Vale, and Aston Villa’s Carney Chukwuemeka on the field.

Only France and Rennes wonderkid Loum Tchaouna scored more goals during the tournament than Gloukh, who was widely regarded as the most impressive player. Gloukh, like the majority of contemporary attacking midfielders, can play as a number 10 but also as a number eight.

Gloukh can dribble past opponents and is equally at ease doing so with both feet. He also has excellent timing when it comes to playing the ball into a forward or releasing a shot. He scored three goals for his team last season in just over 500 minutes of play.

Numerous Premier League teams are interested in Gloukh, and clubs around Europe are as well, but there is little doubt that Liverpool would be drawn to many of his skills.

Like the 19-year-old midfielder Luka Sui of Red Bull Salzburg, who possesses comparable skills with the ball and fills comparable roles on the field, Liverpool would probably wait a few years before making a move for Gloukh in order to fully determine what his level truly is.

While the sample size for the inventive midfield playmaker is good so far, Liverpool will need a more prolonged run of success to persuade them. At 18, he could still explode or might have reached something close to his level.

Gloukh—and Sui, for that matter—would probably need to relocate abroad first in order to proceed, with Liverpool coming after them later on. Even then, they would be a signing that Jürgen Klopp would have to further cultivate, much as he did with Harvey Elliott and will do with Fábio Carvalho.

But Gloukh is unquestionably one of the front-runners if UEFA names a player of the tournament for the U19 Euros, an honor that was granted to Mason Mount the previous time the game was contested and has also gone to Marco Asensio and Fernando Torres in the past.