Remi Savage has turned down a new contract at Liverpool to join Newcastle United.
Savage had originally been named on the retained list Liverpool submitted to the Premier League albeit the 19-year-old had the word 'offer' beside his name.
This was in reference to the one-year deal Liverpool are believed to have offered Savage to stay at Anfield - the Aigburth native is out of contract next month - but the defender has ultimately decided to leave his boyhood club.
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Following 14 years on Liverpool's books, Savage looks set to join Newcastle in the hope he may eventually be able to make the breakthrough into the Magpies' first-team set-up.
Savage has already been busy preparing for the move and has been working with a personal trainer on Merseyside.
Savage, who can play at centre-back and left-back, is comfortable on the ball and has experience of playing at reserve team level for Liverpool.
The FA Youth Cup winner, who naturally idolises Virgil van Dijk, was previously handed his Liverpool's under-18s' debut by Steven Gerrard during the Reds legend's spell in charge.
Savage may have been playing for the under-16s at the time but Gerrard had seen enough in the youngster to throw him in against Wolves, and the defender duly repaid his manager's faith by scoring on his full debut.
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