With Trent Alexander-Arnold and Ben Woodburn making waves in the first team we look at the next group of Liverpool academy players coming up.
I think it’s a pretty well-known Liverpool has one of the most prolific academy systems in England. Not only have we produced the likes of Michael Owen, Robbie Fowler, Steve McManaman, Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher, but many of the academy graduates go on and have good careers elsewhere in football.
There always seems to a list of talent coming through that the Anfield faithful can get pumped about. The current crop of Trent Alexander Arnold, Harry Wilson and Ben Woodbury are the names everybody is talking about but amazingly they are only the tip of a very exciting iceberg.
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Captain fantastic himself, Steven Gerrard, is now in charge of the U18 squad and has already lauded the amount of talent at his disposal. But insists that it will take drive and heart from him and the boys he guides to develop them in to first team potential.
“The world talent frustrates me,” he said in a recent TV interview.
“I love talent and I love seeing it, but these players need to understand the other side of the game: fighting, winning, tackling, going where it hurts, letting your lungs burn, really digging deep. The end of games when young kids want to give up, you can’t do that at Premier League level or Champions League level so, for me, just as important as talent is the other side of the game.”
Lets hope that a tiny drop of Stevie G’s desire can rub off on the four best players at the Liverpool Academy that very few people have heard of, YET!