The lampposts that line the driveway on the approach to Liverpool’s Academy are adorned with banners bearing the images and feats of the likes of Steven Gerrard, Jamie Carragher, Robbie Fowler and Steve McManaman.
Some of Merseyside’s finest footballers, whose precocious talents were honed within the Reds’ youth system. Celebrated predecessors with careers that illustrate what is possible to the young men currently learning their craft in Kirkby.
One individual potentially en route to emulating such icons is Trent Alexander-Arnold: a Scouse Liverpudlian who joined the club he loves at the age of six and now, 14 years on, is living out his dreams in Jürgen Klopp’s first team.