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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
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Theo Squires

Liverpool's 'next Lionel Messi' now without a club after jetting in with no boots to answer SOS call

Jurgen Klopp has never been against handing youngsters first-team opportunities at Liverpool.

With Trent Alexander-Arnold, Curtis Jones, Caoimhin Kellher and Harvey Elliott all well-established first-team stars, Stefan Bajcetic would join the quartet in the Reds’ senior ranks last season before injury ended an impressive breakthrough campaign prematurely.

Ben Doak and Bobby Clark would both catch the eye when turned to, while Calvin Ramsay, Layton Stewart and Melkamu Frauendorf were also all granted first-team opportunities. There will be opportunities for at least the former pair in pre-season once again, with the likes of Conor Bradley, Tyler Morton and Kaide Gordon also looking to catch the eye after loan moves and injury respectively.

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