Liverpool’s academy has produced some incredible players during the Premier League era. Steven McManaman, Robbie Fowler, Jamie Carragher, Michael Owen and Steven Gerrard famously all starred for the Reds after bursting onto the scene in the 90s.

Fast forward to the present day and while Trent Alexander-Arnold and Caoimhin Kelleher, Jarell Quansah have gone, Liverpool still have Curtis Jones and Conor Bradley as key members of their first-team squad.

However, the Reds’ academy hasn’t always been the ‘gold mine’ it is today. Throughout the noughties, it was regularly rued how Gerrard remained the last graduate to become a key first-team player.

Considering how fruitful the 90s had been, mentioned alongside Manchester United’s class of ‘92, onlookers were baffled at Liverpool’s failure to unearth the next Gerrard, Owen or Carragher. In the end it took...