It has been a quiet January transfer window for Liverpool, with the Reds ultimately deciding against adding to Arne Slot’s squad. Their business was limited to only outgoing deals as they completed six deals.

Marcelo Pitauga and Tom Hill completed permanent exits from the club, signing for Fluminense and Harrogate Town respectively. Meanwhile, Calvin Ramsay and Stefan Bajcetic joined Kilmarnock and UD Las Palmas on loan after temporary switches to Wigan Athletic and Red Bull Salzburg were cut short.

And on transfer deadline day, Kaide Gordon completed a loan move to Championship outfit Portsmouth. Dominic Corness joined League Two Gillingham. Jayden Danns's own temporary switch to Sunderland had yet to be confirmed after the deadline had passed.

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Yet despite the lack of incoming business at Anfield, Liverpool’s squad will look slightly different in the second half of the season.

The Reds named a 22-man Premier League squad and 24-man Champions League squad for the first half of the campaign.

Hill was included in both squads as an overage player, even though the 22-year-old was never called on by Slot. His departure now creates an additional vacancy in the squad.

Admittedly, this means very little when it comes to the Premier League, seeing as Liverpool already had three spaces in their maximum 25-man squad if they had wished to add to their ranks.

However, Hill’s exit could potentially permit the Reds to add Rio Ngumoha to their Champions League squad for the knockout stages.

Having only signed from Chelsea in the summer and not been named in Liverpool’s initial squad, the 16-year-old - who made his debut for the club against Accrington Stanley - was ineligible to play for the club in the Champions League league phase.

But that can be rectified if he is now added to their 25-man squad. Despite being under the age of 21, he has not been with the Reds long enough to be eligible for a place on List B.

Trey Nyoni and Amara Nallo were both named in Liverpool’s squad for the first half of the season due to also being ineligible for a place on List B, with the pair making their Champions League debuts against PSV Eindhoven last month.

Clubs are required to name eight locally-trained players, of which at least four must be club-trained, if they wish to name a full 25-man squad.

Including Hill, Liverpool had seven such players which is partly why they had been limited to a 24-man quota in the first half of the campaign.

Still only 16, Ngumoha is technically not yet eligible to be classified as locally-trained as you have to be on your club or a club in the same association’s books for three entire seasons or for 36 months between the ages of 15 and 21.

But Nallo - who will be suspended for the round-of-16 first leg after getting sent off against PSV Eindhoven - celebrated his 18th birthday in November, so he now technically counts as association-trained despite not yet being eligible for a place on List B.

The centre-back can essentially take Hill’s place as one of Liverpool’s locally-trained players, with Ngumoha then able to fill the remaining berth as one of the Reds’ maximum of 17 non-locally trained players.

Ngumoha has regularly trained with the Liverpool first team in open training ahead of their Champions League league matches, but whether they choose to include him in Slot’s European squad for the second half of the season remains to be seen.

The Reds topped the inaugural league phase to book their place in the round-of-16, where they will face Paris Saint-Germain/Brest or Benfica/Monaco.