When Jarrod Bowen left Hull City in January 2020, the club already knew who was going to replace him.

By then, Keane Lewis-Potter had made his first tentative steps in the first team and had become adjusted to football at senior level.

In the two years that have gone by since, Hull’s faith to bet on youth has paid dividends with Lewis-Potter becoming an integral member of the club’s first-team squad playing a key role in the club’s promotion from League One and their fight for survival in the Championship.

With Liverpool reportedly eyeing up Lewis-Potter’s predecessor in Bowen, for a hefty fee in the summer transfer window, Jürgen Klopp should consider saving millions and signing the 20-year-old Hull City youngster instead.

West Ham United are expected to demand an extortionate fee for Bowen; one that could prevent Liverpool from addressing other vulnerabilities in the squad and one which might not be worth it for a player who is undoubtedly talented but not yet proven at the highest level on a consistent basis. Spending big money on Bowen will always be high-risk as a result.

Keane Lewis-Potter, though admittedly inferior in quality to Bowen at the moment, would present less of a risk due to his relatively low price, but he could still offer a similar high reward. Some already regard him better than Bowen was at the same age, and while development is never linear that is a sign of his exciting potential.

Lewis-Potter himself has admitted that Bowen has had a positive influence on his career and has modelled his game on the Liverpool target. “Jarrod was here when I first started and he was banging in the goals. He always helped me and talked to me,” he said via the Yorkshire Post.

“Not just me, but all the other players from the Academy had to look up to a player like him. He has been excellent. When you train with him every day, you see the positions he gets in and the type of finishes he uses.”

That kind of finishing has certainly been embraced by Lewis-Potter who made 19 goal contributions for Hull in League One in 43 appearances.

And despite playing in a relegation-threatened side this season, he currently has the joint first most goal contributions in the Championship for U21 players with five goals and four assists in 2021/22. To illustrate just how impressive he has been, he’s been involved in 45 per cent of Hull City’s goals this season in the league.

Quick, pacey and technically agile with a prowess for one vs one situations and a knack for getting in the right positions in the final third, Lewis-Potter possesses the hallmarks of an ideal attacker in Liverpool’s system under Jürgen Klopp.

He is energetic with a voracious appetite for the ball, and his high defensive work rate is another aspect that would appeal to Klopp at Liverpool.

The step-up will be a significant one, but Lewis-Potter has never shied away from a challenge and he is a player who is determined to get to the top possessing an elite mentality and an appetite to improve and continue to develop.

“I have been putting quite a lot of pressure on myself. I have been getting the chances and I would expect to finish them and know I should. Getting the goal (at Barnsley) will help massively,” he told The Yorkshire Post.

“I have always had high expectations on myself. In training and in games, I back myself and at times, I have to do better.

“It has been hit and miss with me. I have had games where I have had chances and not put them away, which I know I should do. But it is about believing in yourself and staying confident.”

That mentality is exactly what Klopp asks from his players.

Signing Lewis-Potter would be an unprecedented transfer, but with the player valued at just £850k by Transfermarkt, he could be an extremely cheap pick-up by Liverpool and one that will undoubtedly save the club millions.