Liverpool assistant manager Pepijn Lijnders is delighted with the impact of youngster Curtis Jones.
The midfielder has been in the match-day squad for every game this term, and has started nine games.
When interviewed by the club's website, Lijnders had special praise for Jones, saying the coaching staff could do with more players like him.
"He's a physical machine! Really good, another step for his development," Lijnders said. "He deserved this chance and not only a chance, I mean he deserved this repetition of games. He gives this team so much risk and again, an example was Ajax.
"He's a midfielder but is always the first one who arrives in the box or the first one who takes a shot – Ajax was the same, the first two shots were Curtis. He has this great technical ability, of course, where he can make things look much easier than for others, but he fits in our team as no-one else because he's a physical machine. Great, another step, great commitment to show that we want to bring our own players.
"I like it so much that players who are with us from such a young age can fulfil their dreams inside our club and we have this inside pathway where we can bring these players immediately.
"But don't forget, he can only flourish because the big trees are protecting him constantly for the last years; now probably one tree falls down and this young tree grows up and he can deal with the wind because he had time to grow, grow, grow inside our forest, if you want to use that as a symbol.
"Really, really happy with him, he's a great boy to work with. I said many times, you cannot find more passion and ambition than a Scouse player. We need more of them."
