Nat Phillips
Nathaniel Harry Phillips (born 21 March 1997) is an English professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Premier League club Liverpool.
| Phillips with VfB Stuttgart in 2019 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Nathaniel Harry Phillips | ||
| Date of birth | 21 March 1997 | ||
| Place of birth | Bolton, England | ||
| Height | 6 ft 3 in (1.90 m)[1] | ||
| Position(s) | Centre-back[2] | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Liverpool | ||
| Number | 47 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 200?–2016 | Bolton Wanderers | ||
| 2016–2019 | Liverpool | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2019– | Liverpool | 19 | (1) |
| 2019–2020 | → VfB Stuttgart (loan) | 19 | (0) |
| 2022 | → AFC Bournemouth (loan) | 17 | (0) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 22:23, 12 November 2022 (UTC) | |||
Early life
Nathaniel Harry Phillips[3] was born on 21 March 1997[4] in Bolton, Greater Manchester.[5]
Career
Early career
In 2016, Phillips left Bolton Wanderers' academy and trained at Huddersfield Town after he secured a scholarship at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.[6] Two days before his planned flight to the United States, he joined Liverpool's academy instead.[7][8]
Liverpool
In the summer of 2018 Phillips started to train with Liverpool's first team and became a member of Jürgen Klopp's squad[9] but still played for the reserve team.
VfB Stuttgart loan and Liverpool recall
In 2019, he moved to German second-division club VfB Stuttgart on loan for the season.[10][11] He made his professional debut for Stuttgart in the first round of the 2019–20 DFB-Pokal, coming on as a half-time substitute for Holger Badstuber in the away match against 3. Liga club Hansa Rostock.[12] Phillips made his first appearance in the 2019–20 2. Bundesliga on 17 August 2019 against FC St. Pauli.[13] On 27 December 2019, Liverpool announced that Phillips would be recalled from his loan on 1 January 2020 because of a defender injury crisis at his parent club.[14] Twelve days later, after making his first team debut for Liverpool on 5 January 2020 in an FA Cup third round match against Everton, he was loaned back to VfB Stuttgart for the remainder of the 2019–20 season.[15][16]
Return to Liverpool
On 31 October 2020, Phillips made his league debut for the club, starting in Liverpool's 2–1 win over West Ham United.[17][18] On 10 March 2021, Phillips made his Champions League debut, putting in a man of the match performance in a 2–0 win over RB Leipzig, and helping Liverpool advance to the quarter finals 4–0 on aggregate.[19]
Phillips scored his first goal for the club on 19 May 2021, scoring a headed goal and Liverpool's second of the game during a 3–0 away win over Burnley in the Premier League and with it, another man of the match award.[20] The following season, Phillips played in Liverpool's 2–1 win against AC Milan at the San Siro to complete the Champions League group stage with six wins.[21] Days later it was revealed Phillips suffered a fractured cheekbone during the game.[22] With game-time limited in the 2021-22 season, Nat Phillips admitted to being ready to leave the club in the January transfer window.[23]
AFC Bournemouth (loan)
On 31 January 2022, he joined AFC Bournemouth on loan until the end of the season.[24] Regarding the move, Klopp commented that "he would have loved to have kept him [at Liverpool]" and that he was "incredibly reliable [and a] great figure here at the training ground".[25] He made his debut for the club in the FA Cup, 0–1 loss to non-league side Boreham Wood.[26] Phillips made his league debut for the club, and his first appearance in the Championship, in a 3–1 victory against Birmingham City.[27]
Personal life
Nathaniel is the son of former footballer Jimmy Phillips and played under his management in the Bolton Wanderers academy.[28] As of 2023, he is in a relationship with Molly Moorish-Gallagher, daughter of Oasis musician Liam Gallagher.[29]
Career statistics
- As of match played 17 January 2023[30]
| Club | Season | League | National cup | League cup | Europe | Other | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Liverpool | 2019–20 | Premier League | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2020–21 | Premier League | 17 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3[a] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 1 | |
| 2021–22 | Premier League | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2[a] | 0 | — | 3 | 0 | ||
| 2022–23 | Premier League | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | |
| Total | 19 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 1 | ||
| VfB Stuttgart (loan) | 2019–20 | 2. Bundesliga | 19 | 0 | 3 | 0 | — | — | — | 22 | 0 | |||
| Liverpool U21 | 2021–22 | — | — | — | — | 1[b] | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||
| AFC Bournemouth (loan) | 2021–22 | Championship | 17 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 0 | 0 | 18 | 0 | ||
| Career total | 55 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 70 | 1 | ||
- ^ a b Appearances in UEFA Champions League
- ^ Appearance in EFL Trophy
Honours
- VfB Stuttgart
- 2. Bundesliga runner-up: 2019–20[31]
- AFC Bournemouth
- EFL Championship runner-up: 2021–22[32]
References
- ^ "Nathaniel Phillips: Overview". Premier League. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
- ^ "Nathaniel Phillips: Profile". worldfootball.net. HEIM:SPIEL. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
- ^ "Updated squad lists for 2022/23 Premier League". Premier League. 4 February 2023. Retrieved 11 February 2023.
- ^ "Nathaniel Phillips: Overview". ESPN. Retrieved 21 April 2023.
- ^ "Nathaniel Phillips". Liverpool F.C. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
- ^ "Phillips turns down U.S. college scholarship for shot with Liverpool". ESPN. 12 March 2017. Retrieved 12 August 2019.
- ^ "How Liverpool youngster came back from the brink to seal dream move to Reds". Liverpool Echo. 12 March 2017. Retrieved 12 August 2019.
- ^ "Bolton Wanderers Youngster Nat Phillips Joins Liverpool". The Lion Of Vienna Suite. 10 August 2016. Retrieved 18 November 2016.
- ^ "Liverpool's 'hidden' pre-season star". Daily Mirror. 4 August 2018. Retrieved 12 August 2019.
- ^ "Nathaniel Phillips signs new Liverpool contract and joins Stuttgart on loan". Liverpool FC. 7 August 2019.
- ^ "VfB sign Liverpool defender Phillips". vfb.de. VfB Stuttgart. 7 August 2019. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
- ^ "Hansa Rostock – VfB Stuttgart 0:1 (DFB-Pokal 2019/2020, 1. Round)". worldfootball.net. HEIM:SPIEL. 12 August 2019. Retrieved 12 August 2019.
- ^ "VfB Stuttgart – FC St. Pauli 2:1". dfb.de. German Football Association. 17 August 2019. Retrieved 17 August 2019.
- ^ "Nat Phillips returns from Stuttgart loan". Liverpool FC. 27 December 2019.
- ^ "Nathaniel Phillips returns to Stuttgart on loan". Liverpool FC. 13 January 2020.
- ^ "Reds were 'sensationally good' - Klopp". BBC Sport.
- ^ "Liverpool go top after Jota winner". BBC Sport. Retrieved 31 October 2020.
- ^ "Who is Phillips, Liverpool's man thrown in the deep end?". BBC Sport.
- ^ "Liverpool cruise into quarters as Sadio Mané and Salah cut down Leipzig again". Guardian. 10 March 2021. Retrieved 11 March 2021.
- ^ "Liverpool into top four after Burnley win". BBC Sport. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
- ^ "Liverpool beat Milan for perfect group stage record". BBC. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
- ^ "Nat Phillips set for spell out with cheekbone fracture". Liverpool F.C. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
- ^ "Nat Phillips reveals he wants to leave Liverpool in January due to a lack of game time". Sky Sports. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
- ^ "AFC BOURNEMOUTH COMPLETE SIGNING OF NAT PHILLIPS". AFC Bournemouth. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
- ^ "Jurgen Klopp: I would've loved to have kept Nat Phillips". Daily Echo. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
- ^ "AFC Bournemouth 0-1 Boreham Wood". BBC Sport. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
- ^ "AFC Bournemouth 3-1 Birmingham City". BBC Sport. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
- ^ "Decade XI: Remembering those we never saw". 17 December 2019.
- ^ "1 fact that you (probably) don't know about every Liverpool player!". This is Anfield. 9 May 2023. Retrieved 16 May 2023.
- ^ "N. Phillips". Soccerway. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
- ^ Sanghera, Mandeep (3 August 2020). "Liverpool signings: Big names or squad men - who should Jurgen Klopp buy?". BBC Sport. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
Klopp also has 23-year-old Nathaniel Phillips, who helped Stuttgart gain promotion back to the Bundesliga last season
- ^ "AFC Bournemouth 1-0 Nottingham Forest". BBC Sport. 3 May 2022. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
External links
- Nat Phillips at the Liverpool F.C. website
- Nat Phillips at the Premier League website
- Nat Phillips – UEFA competition record ()