Seventeen-year-old Oakley Cannonier has signed his first professional contract with Liverpool, and if you think you may have heard that name somewhere before then you'll be right.
The teenage forward has impressed at Liverpool's academy ever since joining the club as an under-12s player from Leeds United, his boyhood side.
He's earned his first pro deal through hard work and impressing in Liverpool's under-18s side, which is managed by the former Port Vale, Bradford and Carlisle midfielder Mark Bridge-Wilkinson, and he's also represented England at various youth levels.
But while we can all hope that the youngster goes on to forge a successful career at Anfield, he has already had a large part to play in one of Liverpool's most famous nights.
Because Cannonier was the ball boy whose quick thinking saw him throw the ball to Trent Alexander-Arnold before the right-back's famous corner which caught Barcelona on the hop, and allowed Divock Origi to score one of the most famous Kop end goals back in May 2019.
After Alexander-Arnold's attempted cross was blocked, the ball rebounded off the advertising hoardings and back onto the pitch, causing Barca's players to assume that the corner would have to wait to be taken.
However, the ball boy quickly threw a new ball to Alexander-Arnold who then set up to take his quick corner, once Origi had kicked the other ball back to Cannonier off the pitch.
Origi's strike, his second of the night, took the score to 4-0 on the night and 4-3 on aggregate as the Reds completed a remarkable comeback in the Champions League semi-finals.
Cannonier was just 14 at the time, and he has now gone on to follow in the footsteps of French defender Billy Koumetio, another ball boy from that night, in signing a professional deal with the Reds.
Koumetio made his senior debut for Liverpool in the Champions League clash at FC Midtylland last December, and he is highly-rated by Jurgen Klopp and his staff.
The tall centre-back is a year older than Cannonier and so it would be a surprise to see the forward thrust into the first-team picture any time soon, but his first pro deal is a sign that Liverpool have high hopes for his future.
The Reds had reportedly studied Barcelona's tendency to switch off from set-pieces prior to that Anfield second leg, and so Liverpool's ball boys were instructed to get the ball back to Reds players quickly in order to restart the game.
Cannonier's quick-thinking even earned praise from Jose Mourinho after the 2019 semi-final, with the Portuguese boss singling out the then 14-year-old during his work on the match as a television pundit.
"I was a ball boy, a top ball boy… when I was a ball boy, I even knew where the players wanted the ball for a corner, so they didn’t need to touch the ball," Mourinho told RT.
“A real football club, every detail is very, very important.
“In this game, the kid, very intelligent, very bright.
“I don’t know if he is an academy player or not, but the kid knew what he was going to do.
“Then Alexander-Arnold, he read the situation fantastically well. Young kid, Champions League semi-final, tired, 80 minutes of football. He saw everything.
“And then of course, Origi, he could have put the ball over the bar, it’s not easy, but he put it there [in the goal].”
