It’s common for big games playing in the Europa League to field backup players and academy prospects in the group stages of the competition.

Jurgen Klopp has shared his line of thinking on that ahead of the opening group stage game against LASK on Thursday.

“If there will be kids involved that depends on the level the kids can show in that moment,” the boss told the Liverpool Echo.

“We have real talent there (in the Academy), but it is not experimental. I think if we don’t get hit by an injury crisis then we should have enough players to field Thursday and Sunday (v West Ham) a top team, and that’s pretty much the idea.

“So we will see, but we have good kids. That’s the benefit of the international break, when you have all these kids in training. We had 16-year-old boys here, and they are incredibly good, incredibly talented.

“I can’t wait for them, but now in the moment we leave them where they are, they shall develop and all these kinds of things. But there a few good players out there in the Academy and for all the Liverpool supporters out there, I’m pretty sure the future’s bright.”

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