Kalmar FF have Liverpool talent Taiwo Awoniyi firmly in their thoughts as a potential addition, the Swedish top tier club's sporting director has admitted.
The Allsvenskan outfit spotted Awoniyi at the Under-17 World Cup in 2013 and moved to sign him on a pre-contract basis while at the Imperial Soccer Academy in Nigeria.
The deal specified that the Nigerian would join Kalmar when he turned 18 in August 2015, but after shining at the Under-20 World Cup, Liverpool swooped in, paying Kalmar a compensation fee and taking the talent to Anfield.
No work permit though means that Awoniyi has been forced to ply his trade away from Liverpool on loan, having spells with FSV Frankfurt and NEC Nijmegen.
And Kalmar could eventually snap him up on loan, four years after originally spotting him.
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"Maybe Liverpool are looking for a new environment in which to loan Taiwo, but things haven't gone very far", sporting director Thomas Andersson Borstam told Fotbollskanalen.
"But he is in our thoughts and I have contact with him from time to time", he added.
Now 19 years old, Awoniyi made 18 appearances for NEC in the Eredivisie last season, scoring two goals.
A striker by trade, the Nigerian was also on occasion handed a role on the flanks by the Dutch club.
