Year of Youth?

With Jurgen klopp continuing to tell us all that he is not expecting to do significant business this window as his squad is how he'd like it, is this going to be Liverpool's year of youth break through?

Klopp has been misquoted, and we have been wummed many times, on his "different way" comments. This has been particularly so as he then shelled out world record fees for world class players. Of course those few key players transformed our outlook and delivered a champions league.

Is it now time for the "different way"?

What is this different way?

My view is this preseason we are seeing the early shoots of LFC youth recruitment policy which has been steadily gathering players for quite a while, such as:

Van Den Berg (17)
Curtis Jones (18)
Ki-Jana Hoever(17)
Yasser Larouci (17)
Rhian Brewster (19)
Bobby Duncan (18)

Theres only one home grown player there in terms of locality but there's a bit of talent thats been recruited over time to enable Klopp to have the option to take them along and develop them more this summer.

Ki looks an absolutely steal, I'm as sure as I can be he's going to be a big player for us, but Larouci is a prime example of what we are doing. Bought as a winger and converted to left full in the u18s last season. I had thought we'd buy a left full for sure as far back as January last but now I am wondering ..... early days, but its worth a thought.

My view is klopp has talked all preseason about young and returning players rather than big fees for big players, so I think we just might see Klopp's different way this season, but only if these very young players step up and grab the chance ala Trent.

We have some games in cups, we have some squad slots to fill and klopp has hinted strongly that some players are going to fill those.
Yes there are another generation of young men at the club (woodburn, wilson, phillips, kent, ejaria, ojo etc) may have to do some more loans or may need to move to develop their careers depending on how things go this preseason but the very young boys won't be loaned yet so may just get a league cup or fa cup run if the draws are for one kind to us.

So just think baout these few points:

a)Wouldn't it be wonderful to find out brewster is the next Timo Werner and we save ourselves 80mil or so?

b) Wouldn't it be great to see James milner give both Ki and Larouci the chance to stake a claim on a full back slot for us rather than just buy another player now in the short term?

c) This policy might not help us compete with Man City next season but in 12 and 24 months it could. We have the evidence from what klopp did at right back when Clyne was out. He gave TAA and gomez their chances, they were not perfect but they developed and now we have IMO the best RB in the league and a glorious young CB. That 100mil of talent now, but most importantly they delivered success for us after a long barren spell.... along with the world record fees