Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp welcomed former Porto coach Vitor Matos to his backroom team.
In a role that was previously held by the highly-rated Pep Lijnders - before he was promoted to be Klopp's assistant - Matos joins to help smooth the transition from academy to the first team.
Klopp told Liverpoolfc.com: "We've worked for a while on it. We had the idea that it makes real sense because we have so many outstanding, young boys.
"The situation is a little bit like this: if you are in pre-season, they are with us and we need them for training, for the games and all that stuff. But then the season starts and all the big guns come back and we don't want to give them the feeling they are now a bit further away again.
"So we thought it made sense that they really get their specific coach again what Pep did years ago when I came in. I loved the fact I got a sensational assistant manager, but we lost the development coach a little bit.
"We had to fill that void and we've done that with a really great guy, an outstanding coach. Young and experienced, you don't get that a lot. A kind of guy who is used to have six or seven sessions a day."
