The best young players at Liverpool have been revealed in the brand-new Football Manager 2022, with Jurgen Klopp holding some of the world's greatest talents at his disposal.
Sports Interactive's Football Manager has a reputation for being the best football simulator currently available due to the accuracy of its database, with clubs in the real world using FM for scouting and recruitment.
In FM22, the database contains over 800,000 players and staff, and when looking for the next big star, there's a handful of players tipped for greatness at Liverpool.
Liverpool have seen the likes of Trent Alexander-Arnold, Curtis Jones, Raheem Sterling and Conor Coady all promoted through the academy at Liverpool in recent years, with each of them now playing on the biggest stages in the world for club or country.
So in the latest version of Football Manager, FM22, who are the best wonderkids at Anfield this year?
We've rounded up the Reds' youngsters with the highest potential ability rating below.
The best wonderkids at Liverpool in FM22
In the Football Manager series, each player in the FM database is given a value out of 200 for both Current Ability (how good they are now) and Potential Ability (how good they can become).
The best wonderkids are given a minus value for Potential Ability (PA), which gives them a potential ability range that can change depending on their development.
A value of -10 means that the youngster could reach a Current Ability between 170/200 and 200/200, a value of -95 means that the youngster could reach a Current Ability between 160/200 and 190/200 and a value of -9 means that the youngster could reach a Current Ability between 150/200 and 180/200 etc.
Here's the best young talents at Liverpool, all under the age of 21.
- Harvey Elliott (MC/AMR/AML/AMC) - Potential Ability is -9 (150-180)
- Layton Stewart (ST) - Potential Ability is -85 (140-170)
- Mateusz Musialowski (AMR/AML/AMC/ST) - Potential Ability is -85 (140-170)
- Bobby Clark (MC/AMR/AML/AMC) - Potential Ability is -85 (140-170)
- Kaide Gordon (AMR/AML) - Potential Ability is -85 (140-170)
- Billy Koumetio (CB) - Potential Ability is -8 (130-160)
- Sepp Van den Berg (DR/RC/WBR) - Potential Ability is -8 (130-160)
- James Balagizi (MC/AML/AMC) - Potential Ability is -8 (130-160)
- Melkamu Frauendorf (AML/AMR/AMC) - Potential Ability is -8 (120-150)
- Neco Williams (DR/WBR) - Potential Ability is -75 (120-150)
- Leighton Clarkson (DM/MC) - Potential Ability is -75 (120-150)
- James Norris (DL/WBL/ML/AML) - Potential Ability is -75 (120-150)
- Thomas Hill (MR/MC/ML/AMR/AMC/AML) - Potential Ability is -75 (120-150)
- Tyler Morton (DM/MC) - Potential Ability is -75 (120-150)
- Oakley Cannonier (ST) - Potential Ability is -75 (120-150)
- Stefan Bajcetic (DC/DM) - Potential Ability is -75 (120-150)
- Isaac Mabeya (DR/DM/MC) - Potential Ability is -75 (120-150)
According to FM22, Harvey Elliot has the highest potential out of any Liverpool youngster, with his ceiling set at 180 out of 200 for potential ability.
Elliot enjoyed a successful loan spell at Blackburn Rovers before being thrown into the first-team by Jurgen Klopp this season, and the 18-year-old had an impressive spell in the starting XI before his unfortunate injury against Leeds.
To put his potential ability rating into context, according to FM22, if Elliot was to reach his ceiling of 180, he would be the same rating as the current rating of Virgil Van Dijk (180), and four behind Mohamed Salah (184) - two players who are regarded as some of the best in the world.
Football Manager (FM) is the world’s leading football management simulation title.
The Xbox edition of Football Manager 2022 is now available, as is the PC/Mac version and FM22 Mobile, with Football Manager 2022 Touch only being available to play on the Nintendo Switch.
FM22 and FM22 Xbox Edition are now available on Xbox Game Pass.
