As we prepare to publish our Next Generation 2020 selection, we say goodbye to the class of 2015. So how did they get on?
Premier League updates from 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019Worldwide updates from 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019This is what the Guardian’s Andy Hunter wrote about his 2015
Liverpool player for our series the Next Generation, where we pick one player from each Premier League club in the first-year scholar age group and follow their developments for five years.
The 16-year-old has received rave reviews not only from Liverpool and
England coaches during a rapid rise up the ranks but also from Steven Gerrard, his boyhood hero, in the former Anfield captain’s new autobiography. Gerrard reveals he asked Pepijn Lijnders, the first-team development coach, to always include Alexander-Arnold in his group when taking his ’B’ Licence course, and handed him the captain’s armband during a comeback game in Liverpool’s Under-18s side last season. “It was my way of telling Trent that I believed he could make it for Liverpool one day,” Gerrard writes.