Robbie Fowler reveals how he helped Liverpool discover Lewis Koumas in a totally different position

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Nevertheless, Fowler says that Koumas Jr caught his while he was watching his own son play for Wirral Schoolboys, leading to a conversation with head of the academy Alex Inglethorpe. “I like him,” he said when asked about Koumas on his new podcast, ‘We’ll Have A Look’, alongside former Liverpool teammate Steve McManaman.

I’m not saying he’s there because of me, of course not, but I always knew he was going to be a player. “What I like about Lewis Koumas, there’s no airs or graces about him, he’s going to put a shift in, he’s going to make the defenders know that they’re in a game, because that’s what he knows he needs to do to get into a team,” Fowler said.

But he knows he’s got to go in there and he’s got to be a handful, he’s got to run the channels, make sure the defenders know they’re in a game. The biggest compliment you can pay him is that he’s never let you down when he’s played.” Though it may well have been a decade or more since Koumas was playing as a midfielder, it is interesting to know that he used to do it – and do it so well.