Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has urged his academy players to hold nothing back during the club's preseason camp in Austria.
Numerous academy players have made up the 36-man squad, including teenagers Kaide Gordon and Harvey Elliott.
And Klopp says now is the time for the youngsters to disregard fear and take risks on the pitch.
"This is a win-win situation," Klopp told the club's website. "We need the boys to make the numbers, that's the first thing – we would need them if they wouldn't be good as well, they just come and we need to have numbers.
"But they are really, really exciting, I have to say. All of them – there's not one in where I say, 'Oh'. So we have now different groups of young players. We have the very young players; Kaide Gordon, for example, now the youngest; then there's 18-year-olds, of course Harvey slightly different, is now back.
" The 19-year-olds still very young. Then Leighton Clarkson is already 20, so he is not that young anymore, like Jake Cain as well. And Rhys is making steps – literally, how we all see – but development-wise as well.
"They are all really good. I have to say, the Academy is doing a brilliant job, we cannot say it a different way – we have a bunch of players we are really excited about. I told them in the first days, just don't hold anything back because that's really a waste of time.
"Be polite next to the pitch, do whatever you have to do – if there's a queue, don't be the first ones – but on the pitch don't do that.
"You have a chance to impress, so do it. You are here because you are good, we all know that: Liverpool FC has only good players on all Academy levels. Now you are here, just hold nothing back. Then you see how Tyler, Conor, they all throw their heart on the pitch and it's really, really nice to see."
