{"id":450671,"date":"2025-09-25T15:34:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T15:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/450671\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T15:34:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T15:34:12","slug":"rio-ngumoha-signs-first-professional-contract-with-liverpool-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/450671\/","title":{"rendered":"Rio Ngumoha signs first professional contract with Liverpool FC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Rio Ngumoha signs first professional contract with Liverpool FC\" title=\"Rio Ngumoha signs first professional contract with Liverpool FC\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/rio-ngumoha-pro-contract-25092025_0f7cf80680c263a708bec18179f0894d.webp\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0;border:none;margin:auto;display:block;width:0;height:0;min-width:100%;max-width:100%;min-height:100%;max-height:100%;object-fit:cover\"\/>Published 2 hours ago <\/p>\n<p>By Sam Williams<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-hg7nzy\">Rio Ngumoha has signed his first professional contract with Liverpool FC.<\/p>\n<p>The forward, who arrived at the Academy in September 2024 having previously been at Chelsea, has made five senior appearances for the Reds to date \u2013 most recently in Tuesday\u2019s 2-1 Carabao Cup win over Southampton.<\/p>\n<p>Ngumoha netted a 100th-minute winner in a 3-2 victory at Newcastle United last month, on the occasion of his Premier League debut.<\/p>\n<p>A few weeks later, the England U19 international appeared in European competition for the first time when he came off the bench in a Champions League success against Atletico Madrid at Anfield.<\/p>\n<p>Ngumoha featured for the Reds\u2019 U18s, U19s and U21s in 2024-25 and was handed his senior debut by Arne Slot in an Emirates FA Cup tie with Accrington Stanley in January of this year.<\/p>\n<p>Published 2 hours ago <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200c Published 2 hours ago By Sam Williams Rio Ngumoha has signed his first professional contract with Liverpool&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1050,1051,1039,1046,1041,1052,1054,1053,763,1045,1044,1040,1049,1042,1047,79,1043,16,15,1048],"class_list":{"0":"post-450671","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-alisson","9":"tag-firmino","10":"tag-homepage","11":"tag-klopp","12":"tag-lfc","13":"tag-lfc-news","14":"tag-lfctv","15":"tag-lfctv-go","16":"tag-liverpool-fc","17":"tag-liverpool-fc-match","18":"tag-liverpool-fc-news","19":"tag-liverpool-football-club","20":"tag-mane","21":"tag-reds","22":"tag-salah","23":"tag-sports","24":"tag-the-reds","25":"tag-uk","26":"tag-united-kingdom","27":"tag-van-dijk"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115265671983707088","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}