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Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher believes that highly rated Anfield Under-16 coach Pepijn Linders will be the man to step up and work with the Reds first team next season.

Carragher tweeted: “It looks like they’ve promoted Pepijn Linders from the U16s to work with the first team.

“He is someone I’ve seen work at the academy and spoken to three or four times over the last 12 months there’s no doubt he’s a very good coach. He’s got experience from Porto and PSV in the last few years.

“Watching him coach it was clear he would progress in the game he had an authority when coaching the youngsters that hopefully he can take to Melwood.

“If true it’s a fantastic opportunity for Pepijn and let’s hope he can make a difference.”

Liverpool declined to comment.

First team coaches Mike Marsh and Colin Pascoe both left the club two weeks ago.

The 32-year-old Dutchman is a multi-linguist who quotes Einstein and has one of the strongest reputations in the world of youth development.

He began his career as an intern at PSV Eindhoven in his native Holland where he coached a young Memphis Depay and eventually spent five years with the Dutch giants.

He was poached by Porto and enjoyed seven seasons in Portugal coaching at all levels from Under six to the first team squad.

His views on development, education and commitment to attacking football established Lijnders as one of the most promising youth coaches in the world and his recruitment in the summer of 2014 was seen as a huge coup for Liverpool.

PEPIJN LINDERS QUOTES (From Das Wunderkind)

“Our style is to attack, with and without the ball. We realise that the game is played with one ball, our ball, and we steal it back wherever on the pitch and we use it to attack the opponent. It doesn’t matter who we play against, we will press them high and aggressively and we will attack and attack them again.”

“Learning is 10 times more valuable than teaching. We need to create independent individuals, who understand by learning, give them chances and freedom within a clear game idea to excel.”

The starting point of development is the passion and ambition of a player. What I’ve learned over the years is that there is one characteristically decisive factor that decides 99 per cent of development – love for the game. Because if you don’t love it, you will never work hard and play enough to become really great.”

“Nobody knows what the future of football will look like; the only thing I’m sure of is that the defensive organisation of teams will be even better. They will protect the middle zone of the pitch better and defend their area better. We need to create players who can ruin this defensive organisation.”

“With one through pass, you can beat 4, 5 or even 6 opponents, effectively taking them out of the game . . . The central defenders become more important in offense, creating opportunities through open play . . . within our team, principally defenders are classed as supporting . . . we always have support from the back.”

“Players should know what happens in front of them, behind them and all around them. The best developed and technically adept players are constantly open, move into space, they know what is going to happen around them. They see everything . . . More space means more time and less opportunity for your opponent to intercept the ball, leaving your opponents chasing you and the ball.”