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Elliot Thompson

Liverpool made lifelong fan's dreams come true but £2m transfer gamble didn't come off

If Liverpool are to land top target Jude Bellingham before he turns 20 on June 29, he will almost certainly break the club's transfer target, and he may well even become the most expensive teenager of all time.

Rewind back 28 years ago today and the Reds handed a debut to the player that had just broke the British transfer record for a teenager. The player in question? Mark Kennedy.

Snapped up in a £2m deal from Millwall, the Irishman was handed his Liverpool bow in a home clash with Leeds United, who won 1-0 thanks to Brian Deane. It was meant to herald the start of a career that would go from strength to strength at Anfield.

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