Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp as hailed the impact Alexis Mac Allister has made on and off the pitch.
Mac Allister arrived last year from Brighton.
" How can you not love a player or boy like him?" said Klopp. "He is incredible. He is educated in the best possible way, full of life, confident, funny, smart and an incredible footballer. Oh my God. You watch training sessions and the coaches look at each other and go 'wow, what was that?!'.
"How he interacts with the other boys, how he took the South American outfield players under his wing naturally without telling them what to do, it's just how they came together.
"I loved it from the first moment we met before we signed him. I met his dad, and the football understanding in his family is second to none. His dad a former professional, uncle a former professional, brother is a professional, cousin is a professional. They all eat and breathe football and that's so good."
