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Arne Slot said that he is not thinking about a loan move for Jayden Danns in January at the moment, but would not rule one out.
Danns emerged as a second-half substitute versus Accrington Stanley in the FA Cup and scored the Reds’ third of the game, having played a key role earlier in the move in creating the chance from which the goal eventually came from.
The teenager has now scored three goals in the FA Cup, having netted twice during a 3-0 victory over Southampton in the fifth round last season just a month after his 18th birthday.
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Danns has scored three goals in seven appearances during his fledgling Liverpool career but has not appeared in the Premier League or the Champions League under Slot, and the Dutchman was asked whether a loan move during the second half of the season was on the cards.
“The last thing [a loan move], I don’t know at the moment, to be honest,” Slot responded. “What I like most about him – and with most of the academy players – is the mentality they have. So, that’s a big compliment for him and definitely also a big compliment to our youth academy because if you are a youngster and you come to the first team sometimes you are used in a way that you might not expect [in training]. Although it is common in football, you are then playing the other team that has to copy sometimes the team we face over here, so sometimes you are in a different position.
“He is a striker, but if we are playing 11v11 and I make the choice to play [Diogo] Jota and the other side Darwin [Nunez] is playing as a nine, he has to play as an 11 or as a six or whatever position we need him. But he will always, like the other academy players, give all they have. James McConnell is also a perfect example of that. If that is your mentality you can definitely get the most of your potential. That is what is going to happen with him. What that potential is, it probably needs some time to find out if he will in the end be a starter for us, but he will have a very good career because of his mentality. I am very sure of that.”