Lijnders hails Liverpool youth setup: Continuity works

Football
1 Nov 2023 • 12:26 PM MYT
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Liverpool assistant boss Pep Lijnders has a lot of time for the club's academy.

The Reds have been famous for bringing through quality youth products into the first team.

With the likes of Harvey Elliott and Curtis Jones shining for boss Jurgen Klopp, Lijnders praised the next generation of youngsters coming through.

He told club media yesterday: I think what the biggest clubs in the world have in common is this one-club mentality. Where from a very young age, it's the same style.

From a very young age, the coaches have just one target to teach them the values of the club. Alex Inglethorpe is more than 10 years in the job as Academy director consistency. Jrgen Klopp is here for eight years. Vitor Matos, who is the bridge between the Academy and the first team and who continues with the values and gives everything of his DNA, of his way of seeing things to the young players.

We have Barry Lewtas, who was here as a young coach and now as our U21 manager. All these guys me included we really want this pathway to be open because we feel that only then you create a healthy club, a club who is sustainable and a club who has culture.

For example, Curtis [Jones] came in and Millie [James Milner], Adam Lallana, Gini [Wijnaldum], they were on top of him, they were speaking every time when he did something wrong but they cared.

And then now you see Calum [Scanlon] coming in or Luke [Chambers] and Curtis is speaking in the same way to them how Millie was. And then you create culture. That was a dream and we knew always it was possible. But in the end we are here and all these guys I just mentioned, they believe and they want. You need a lot of guts. But we believe in this process. That's one of the reasons why we all love working for this club. Because this club is much bigger than just a 'first team'. This club is almost like an institution, in my opinion."