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Liverpool’s Academy is enjoying an incredible year when it comes to Reds youngsters playing for Jurgen Klopp’s first team.
The German has selected 14 academy graduates so far this season, with 11 of them playing in the Premier League. Meanwhile, a further six have been named in matchday squads.
And while the likes of Trent Alexander-Arnold, Curtis Jones, Harvey Elliott, and Caoimhin Kelleher graduated from the Academy long ago, this season has seen Conor Bradley and Jarell Quansah join them as first team players, with the likes of Bobby Clark, Ben Doak, and James McConnell also becoming matchday squad regulars.
In the 2018/19 season, where Liverpool won the Champions League but missed out on the title by a solitary point to Man City, only two academy graduates (Alexander-Arnold and Rafael Camacho) made Premier League appearances.
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Yet that number has risen every year since, with this year’s total of 11 already the joint-highest of Klopp’s Liverpool era (level with his first season at the club in 2015/16). And when you consider that Bajcetic is yet to make a top-flight appearance this season because of injury, you would not be surprised if the Reds set a new record come May.
And Klopp has already highlighted a number of youngsters who are training with the first team but are yet to make their senior debuts as ones to watch for the future.
"You don’t know a few (emerging players) yet,” he said after Liverpool’s FA Cup win over Norwich City last month. “So, maybe you know them but they were not with us yet on the pitch and
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