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Loan deals for several young Liverpool prospects are expected to be finalised in the next few days following discussions between Brendan Rodgers and Academy director Alex Inglethorpe.

A posse of scouts attended Liverpool’s U21 mini-derby win against Everton at Chester on Monday night while the recent nationally televised victory against Chelsea also gave some of the Reds’ youngsters an opportunity to showcase their talents.

Striker Jerome Sinclair, who scored a stunning goal in that Chelsea victory, is one of those widely expected to find a temporary home while left sided attacker Jack Dunn is also likely to follow up on his early season spell with Cheltenham.

Liverpool are hoping moves to league clubs will see some of their promising prospects show the same sort of development that Jordon Ibe enjoyed at Derby while Sheyi Ojo is already performing well at Wigan as they try to fight off relegation.

Speaking about possible loan deals after Monday’s game, Liverpool U21 manager Michael Beale said: “I think, yes, the (loan) window ends in the next 14 days and we’ve got a number of things, there’s a nice little break now where we can sit down and talk about them. I’m sure Alex will sit down with Brendan and make the correct decisions for the boys.

“Jack’s (Dunn) been excellent, he’s gone away in Cheltenham and was absolutely flying when he unfortunately got an injury there, and he’s worked his way back, and the next step for Jack is to go and play League football.

“He got three or four goals in five games there, he’s another player who’s got a hell of a lot of options this week so you probably won’t see him after this week maybe.

“You see tonight, I looked at the list of clubs who were coming to scout it, and there was a lot of people. There’s a lot of players on both teams tonight that are really good.

“Everton have a boy in midfield (Liam) Walsh who I think is outstanding and the centre forward (David) Henen I think is interesting and the two centre halves Galloway and Browning, everyone knows who they are. Ledson showed he is top class on the goal.

“Everton have got lots and lots of good players and I’m really looking forward to the return game at Goodison in April.”

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Most eyes on the loan window will be probably be on Sinclair with Jamie Carragher one of those who recently spoke of the need for the 18-year-old to go in search of league football.

Beale said: “I think there will be news in the next few days because there’s certainly a lot of interest and I don’t think anyone did themselves any harm tonight. Jerome was really ill before the game but we knew Jack could only play 60 minutes and Mamadou (Sakho) could only 45 so we were like ‘come on Jerome you’ve got to play’ and he was sick three or four times in the dressing room so he’s done really well to play tonight.”

Liverpool’s 2-1 win, courtesy of goals from both substitutes in birthday boy Dan Cleary and an injury-time stunner from Harry Wilson, took them joint top of the Barclays U21 Premier League but that is not seen as a priority at the Academy which is focused entirely on player development.

Beale believes the influence of the senior Liverpool players is having a really positive effect on his players after Sakho played the first 45 minutes on Monday to continue his comeback from a hip injury.

“We’ve been very fortunate recently, we trained on Sunday morning and we had a couple of the senior lads who weren’t involved (in the Blackburn game) with us. The attitude of the senior lads at Liverpool, I’ve been blown away.

“They just enjoy being part of the club and the way we’re working and they’re really good to the young players. Jordan Williams is up there pretty much full time now and how he’s been taken in by the players has been fantastic and that’s a big part of the Liverpool family. I know people talk about it but unless people are living in it you don’t really know exactly what it’s like and we’re very lucky.”