When Liverpool handed a 17-year-old Frenchman his first professional contract earlier this month, it was no surprise that it didn’t make headline news.
This wasn’t the Reds handing a new deal to a talent like Harvey Elliott, a player already well known having made his Premier League debut at 15 and seen as one of the best in his position, at his age, in Europe.
Rather, this was much more run of the mill. A contract being handed to a promising teenager the same way that 99.9 percent of contracts are handed to teenagers by football clubs.
Quietly, with little in the way of fanfare. But then, a few days after, Jurgen Klopp spoke. And the German manager’s glowing reference wasn’t the kind of thing you usually see from a first-team boss when
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