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Liverpool Echo
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Tom Cavilla

Defender Liverpool signed for £90k became Cody Gakpo team-mate and is now unlikely goal hero

After making his competitive Liverpool debut against Wolves four years ago, Molineux would go on to become a ground Ki-Jana Hoever would call home.

Signed by the Reds for a fee of £90,000 in 2018, the Dutch defender was one of three players to make their first-team bow in an FA Cup third-round defeat in the West Midlands.

At the start of the following season, Hoever then bagged his first professional goal in an EFL Cup triumph at MK Dons aged 17 years, eight months and 10 days old. There were high hopes the youngster could have a part to play in the coming years, highlighted by Jurgen Klopp's assessment of the Amsterdam-born star one month prior to his cup goal.

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