Rio Ngumoha signed his first professional contract with Liverpool on Thursday, with the Premier League champions rewarding the teenager for his first-team breakthrough.

His new deal comes a month after he scored his first goal for the club -- a dramatic 100th-minute winner in a 3-2 win at Newcastle United . He turned 17 four days later.

Ngumoha, whose five senior appearances for the club also include a Champions League victory against Atlético Madrid , had previously been on a scholar's contract.

He joined Liverpool in the summer of 2024 from Chelsea 's academy. A tribunal is yet to decide how much compensation Liverpool need to pay to the west London club as part of the then-15-year-old's move up north.

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