the three-year contract this week<\/a> for England Under-17 winger Harvey Elliott, born in Surrey and a product of Fulham’s youth system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n“Of course, if you love football and are talented, we want you to be here,” the manager said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some of Liverpool’s most notable players have been locally produced, though; former England internationals Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher were both born on Merseyside and emerged from the club’s youth system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
More recently, Trent Alexander-Arnold has established himself as Liverpool’s first-choice right-back, also winning nine England caps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Klopp said a number of other youth prospects are close to emulating the 21-year-old’s success and that it is a “good thing”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“They are so humble and hard working,” Klopp added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“The perfect scenario is that we have these role model professionals around. If the boys follow this path with their talent, they will have proper careers.” Curtis Jones, Mason Greenwood & Bukayo Saka star for Liverpool, Man Utd & Arsenal<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Klopp – whose side visit Brighton in the Premier League on Wednesday – also said Sadio Mane is a “big example” of the progress players can make after joining the club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Senegal forward – signed from Southampton for \u00a334m in June 2016 – has now hit 20 club goals for the third successive season, having scored against Aston Villa on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I remember this unbelievably talented boy we took from Southampton; he was really outstanding skill-wise but a little lack of consistency which is probably why people thought ‘Really? So much money? You watch the wrong game,” Klopp said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“The level he performs at is unbelievable. He came as a young boy and he grew up, matured here.”<\/p>\n\n\n\nCurtis Jones scored his first Premier League goal the day after signing a new contract Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp says his dream is to have a team “full of Scousers” – with all first-team players graduating from the club’s academy. Midfielder Curtis Jones – born in Liverpool and a product of the club’s youth system […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Liverpool-Football.jpg?fit=800%2C450&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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