The
20-year-old Czech youth international arrived at Anfield in 2017 from Slavia
Prague, initially joining Steven Gerrard’s under 18s team and helping the Reds
win the prestigious FA Youth Cup in his second season on Merseyside.
He
went on to make his first senior appearance in a friendly against Tranmere
Rovers in 2019/20 before kicking on last season, being named on the bench for
Liverpool’s Champions League matches against Ajax and FC Midtjylland and
starting against Tranmere and Port Vale in the EFL Trophy.
Later
in the campaign he joined Irish top-flight side St Patrick’s Athletic in what
proved to be a hugely successful loan move as he kept 11 clean sheets in 38
matches and scooped the club’s player of the season and the League of Ireland's
goalkeeper of the year awards.
And
his stay in Ireland reached the perfect conclusion in late November as St Pat’s
emerged victorious from a closely contested FAi Cup final against Bohemians
played out in front of 37,000 fans at the Aviva Stadium.
County`s
head coach Ian Burchnall told https://www.nottscountyfc.co.uk: “Vit comes very
highly recommended to me by a friend at Liverpool and Michael Doyle has taken a
number of very good references from Ireland, so we’re delighted to have him
here.
“It’s
well documented that we want to get Tiernan Brooks out on loan to further his
first-team experience and as a consequence of that we needed to bring someone
else in.
“I
didn’t want that person to be a number two who’s comfortable sitting behind Sam
Slocombe. Like in every area of the pitch, we want challenge in order to raise
the bar.
“Sam
was excellent at Wealdstone, has had a good season and is a top professional. He
will be driven on by Vit and vice-versa”. |