Liverpool FC can confirm the permanent signing of goalkeeper Marcelo Pitaluga from Fluminense.
The 17-year-old joins the Reds having been part of the Brazil squad that won the FIFA U17 World Cup on home soil last November.
He was then named on the bench for two Fluminense fixtures in Serie A last season and he worked with Alisson Becker’s brother, Muriel, at the Brazilian side.
Pitaluga has now started training at Melwood, where he will be based with the first-team group, alongside playing for the club’s Academy teams.
“I saw him for the first time in the World Cup squad.