Liverpool are taking it easy with the development of youngster Billy Koumetio.
The teenage centre-half is another hot prospect from the team's youth setup and has been training with the first team at their pre-season camp in Austria.
But the Reds coaching staff and manager Jurgen Klopp want to limit the pressure put on Koumetio at such a young age.
"You don't want to put any pressure on the boy and you want him to enjoy his football," said a senior figure at the club to the Liverpool Echo.
"You want him to make the next steps. We never try to put a player in the wrong position and say he is going to be this or that because that can only work against him. We just let the boy be a boy and watch him improve.
"He has good players around him who he can watch and learn from and hopefully he can make steps with that. That is what the boss has created, to give young boys a chance and we always want to look at that model to find the 'next one' so he can develop.
"We have a good squad and they all help each other. The senior players give them information in the same way the coaches do to improve them and we just try to help them make the next step and that is the same for all the coaches.
"The players are fed information and that all comes from the top with Jurgen and Peter (Krawietz) and Pep (Lijnders). That helps all the young players to make steps. And we try to help as the players do.
"We never like putting pressure on boys though, let's help them make the next step and hopefully the game will show them what they are doing. That is it."
