Liverpool have plenty of young talents coming through from their Kirkby Academy, with each Reds age group designed to create players who can slot straight into the first-team when they are ready.
There is no better example of that being the case than Curtis Jones, who has this season been plugged into a Liverpool midfield far more regularly than even he would have anticipated at just 19.
However, Jones has become a midfielder who is capable of doing the defensive side of the game as efficiently as any other Jurgen Klopp player, making himself a vital member of the first-team squad in the process.
He has already 1022 minutes of football at senior level this campaign, only 152 minutes short of double what he managed in the entirety of last season, with possibly little more than a quarter of Liverpool's games played.
Part of the reason that he has slotted in with such ease, giving Klopp no qualms about trusting him in defensive areas, is that Jones is perhaps the first player to emerge from the Academy make himself a regular who has the 'typical' characteristics his German manager likes.
On the Analysing Anfield podcast, Josh Williams explained: "Jones is a real product of the Academy. Since Klopp took charge, he has been really intent in getting the kids to play exactly like the first team.
"Once the kids come through, they can just slot in seamlessly and although Trent has come through before him, Trent is not really a Klopp player.
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"Trent, I think, is a bit more of a Pep Guardiola type player - a bit more possession-based.
"But Jones is more of a Klopp player in terms of being versatile, intense, physical, strong mentality and an all-round game with and without the ball.
"In terms of his profile, he is a blend of a number of different Liverpool midfielders. He has aspects of Henderson, Wijnaldum and Keita about him but is kind of a cocktail of those players.
"He is a bit less defensively active than Jordan Henderson but more offensive-minded, offering more in the final third than Henderson does.
"He looks like he is contributing in a number of areas, and is not one of them weird data players, like Gini Wijnaldum, for example, who looks from his data profile like he is doing nothing.
"If you look at Jones’ numbers, he moves the ball into the final third, he takes shots, he dribbles past players.
"In terms of when Liverpool have the ball, everyone is an attacker and when they don’t have the ball, everyone is a defender, Jones is really well-suited to that."
Certainly, the evidence is there in the early part of the season that Jones is going to be a hugely influential player for his boyhood club this season.
Even when players like Thiago Alcantara are back, fully fit and available, and there are more central defenders to choose from allowing Fabinho to move back into his preferred role, Jones' performances to date prove he will still get minutes.
Having already surpassed Steven Gerrard in terms of goals scored as a teenager for Liverpool, Jones is well on the way to making himself the complete Liverpool midfielder.
More than that, though, he is becoming the complete Klopp midfielder, morphing seamlessly into a viable long-term option.
