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Reduced numbers, lower wages, more hunger - Inside Liverpool's thriving Academy

Alex Inglethorpe sits down with Goal for an exclusive in-depth look at the progress being made at the Reds' Kirkby base

The faces jump out at you.

Steven Gerrard, Raheem Sterling, Trent Alexander-Arnold.

Visit Liverpool’s Academy in Kirkby and you’ll glimpse the past as well as the future. It’s more than 20 years old now, a place of hopes and dreams, growth and development.

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A place where footballers are made.

Inside, the office wall of Alex Inglethorpe, the Academy director, charts the progress of the 170 youth players contracted to the Reds at present.