Liverpool tie down highly-rated teenagers to new contracts

Liverpool: Liverpool teenagers Lloyd Jones and Daniel Trickett-Smith have penned their first professional contracts with the club, liverpoolecho.co.uk reports.

Highly-rated centre-back Jones, who joined the Reds from Plymouth in 2011, impressed at youth level last season, earning himself a call-up to the first-team squad for May's Premier League trip to Fulham.

Fellow 17-year-old Trickett-Smith, a midfielder, has also signed a pro deal.

The England youth international, who arrived from Crewe in 2012, was one of the stars of Liverpool's march to the semi-finals of last season's FA Youth Cup.