Peering on the Anfield touchline, Bobby Clark was unfazed.
As Liverpool romped to a 9-0 victory over Bournemouth in late August, Jurgen Klopp would hand Clark a moment he would never forget as he became the Reds’ latest academy graduate to be introduced into the riches of the Premier League.
For Clark, it was the latest chapter of his rapid rise through the Reds’ youth ranks since Klopp’s face-to-face talks with the 18-year-old and his family in the summer of 2021 convinced the midfielder to swap boyhood club Newcastle for Anfield.