Reserves & Youth NEWS

Rafa has faith in youth

Published by Zac Lee Rigg on July 31, 2008

He’s not to Arsenal levels, but Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez has been investing heavily in youth. One of the future stars ready to break through is Krisztian Nemeth, the striker leading the reserves to glory last season and has has even been capped by the Hungarian national squad.

Benitez told Liverpoolfc.tv: “Krisztian is a player who has a lot of potential and I feel the time is right to include him in the first team squad for the game against Villarreal,” said Benitez,

“He played very well for the reserves last season and scored quite a lot of goals. It is clear that he has the ability to score but he also has good game intelligence.

“We have high hopes for him but he must continue to work hard every day because that is the only way to improve.

“The good thing is Krisztian likes to learn and work with the coaching staff and this will only help him.”

“The young players are doing a very good job and the work that they have been doing is already bearing fruit.”

“We have good quality in the reserve team and we can see these players being in the first team in the future.

“We have done this without spending big money on them, the cost to the club has been minimum.

“It was important that we signed these players when we did because we needed to improve and it is clear that this has already happened because last season the reserve team won the league and the average age of the team was just 18.

“These players clearly have great potential and it would be very hard to find better young players than them without spending big money.

“Hopefully they will go on to fulfil their potential because this would save the club a lot of money.

“Every year the quality of the squad is improving and these players are an important part of that improvement.”

Youth coming through is crucial to the further development of Liverpool, especially in the current credit crunch affecting all businesses, including major football clubs.

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