Liverpool's £2million Brazilian goalkeeper Marcelo Pitaluga has gone on a season-long loan – to Macclesfield of the Northern Premier League Division One West.
Silkmen director of football Robbie Savage pulled off the phoenix club's coup by promising to give Pitaluga the No.1 shirt and a guaranteed first-team football.
Pitaluga, 19, was part of the Brazil squad who won the Under-17 World Cup and his progress at Anfield has been so rapid that he has become a regular in Liverpool's Under-23 side.