Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson has said teenager Tyler Morton has a 'big future ahead of him'.
The 19-year-old academy graduate has started Liverpool’s last two games after breaking into Jurgen Klopp’s senior squad this season.
Morton made his first-team debut against Norwich City in the Carabao Cup in September and has since gone from strength to strength, starting matches in both the Premier League and Champions League.
The youngster’s development has not gone unnoticed by the Reds skipper either.
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“Tyler has been brilliant over the last few months, I really think he has improved,” Henderson told Liverpoolfc.com .
“He has obviously learned and listened to a lot of the lads around him in training and being around the lads, in the dressing room and in training, it will certainly help him.
“And I think that has helped him going into games, I think he has looked comfortable and he hasn’t looked fazed at all and he has done really well.
“So hopefully he can just carry on doing that. He is a great lad as well, he has worked extremely hard and I’m sure he’ll have a big future ahead of him.”
A self-confessed box-to-box player, Morton’s most recent first-team berths have come in Fabinho’s absence at the base of a midfield trio.
The boyhood Liverpool fan has also received glowing reviews from Jurgen Klopp, who gave Morton plaudits after his recent performance against AC Milan in the Champions League.
"The football brain he showed tonight was absolutely exceptional,” the Reds boss said. “If you are technically on that level and he obviously is and you have such good orientation then you have time for good stuff.”
Morton, who signed a new deal with the club at the start of this year, will be looking to add to his seven appearances for Liverpool as the season progresses.
