Ki-Jana Hoever: Liverpool's jigsaw puzzle

Liverpool’s Academy director is talking about Ki-Jana Hoever - and you already know the headline facts about him, of course. He is a 16-year-old boy with a place in the Reds’ history books.

In replacing Dejan Lovren early on in Monday’s FA Cup third-round meeting with Wolverhampton Wanderers, Hoever became the club’s third-youngest debutant and their youngest ever in that competition.

The Netherlands youth international was just 16 years and 354 days old when he performed with remarkable surety and confidence in central defence during a testing tie that ultimately ended in a narrow defeat.

“Ki-Jana played really good,” was Jürgen Klopp’s assessment when he spoke to Liverpoolfc.com post-match…