Mateusz Musialowski, a young winger, was cut by his current team, Liverpool, after being courted by Leeds United and Birmingham City in January.
The 20-year-old’s exit from Anfield was verified when the Reds retained list for the 2023–24 season was released. A section of the list was devoted to the Poland U21 international’s departure from Anfield.
During his tenure with the club, he made just one senior appearance, but his performances for the academy teams of the Merseysiders attracted the attention of several lower-tier English teams.
The teenage talent apparently piqued the curiosity of two of those teams, Leeds and Birmingham, but a move to either never happened. It is unclear in light of this announcement whether the two clubs
Two of those sides, Leeds and Birmingham, reportedly expressed an interest in the young starlet but a move to either never materialised. In light of this announcement, it remains to be seen whether the two clubs will reignite their January battle this summer.
Birmingham and Leeds were both interested in released Liverpool star
Musialowski arrived at Liverpool in 2020, having previously played youth football in his native Poland.
He quickly caught attention in the Premier League side’s youth setup for his searing runs, rapid changes of direction and close control through opposition defences, fashioning his own chances from seemingly nothing, which led to him gaining the nickname ‘the Polish Messi’.Despite his progress in the youth squad, he never quite managed to claim his spot in Jurgen Klopp’s first-team rotation, despite many other promising youngsters graduating from the Liverpool academy around him.
He was restricted to just one senior appearance, a 16-minute cameo against Sparta Prague in the Europa League in March, before news of his release was delivered.
The writing had been on the wall for some time, however, as approaches from Birmingham and Leeds followed the collapsing of a deal that would have seen Musialowski move to Austrian outfit TSV Hartberg the previous summer.
With the Polish youngster now a free agent, a move by Birmingham or Leeds may now be simpler, and cheaper, to negotiate.
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