Look beyond the numbers and Liverpool will be wary of nobody more than Camavinga 

With Toni Kroos and Luka Modric blocking his path, the 19-year-old has had to bide his time in Spain but there is no player of whom Liverpool will be more wary

Real Madrid's French forward Karim Benzema (L) and Real Madrid's French midfielder Eduardo Camavinga attend a training session at the Ciudad Real Madrid in the Madrid's suburb of Valdebebas during the club's Media Day on May 24, 2022 ahead of their UEFA Champions League final match against Liverpool. Photo by GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP via Getty Images)

Eduardo Camavinga is not accustomed to waiting. This is a man for whom everything has happened in a tremendous hurry. The youngest player in Rennes’ history, at 16 years and four months. The youngest to be named player of the month in Ligue 1. The youngest male France international for more than 100 years. For Camavinga, the trajectory of his career has been steep, swift and spectacular. Until, that is, he joined Carlo Ancelotti’s Real Madrid and was forced to bide his time.

Camavinga signed for Madrid on the final day of last summer’s transfer window, an all-action midfielder coveted across the continent. The fee, £26.6m with add-ons, looked a bargain for a teenage prodigy of rare versatility and poise. With Toni Kroos and Luka Modric well beyond 30 and Casemiro having just crossed that threshold, Camavinga was rapturously welcomed in the capital and immediately tipped to take the Bernabéu by storm.