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Liverpool's hit-and-miss academy: As Jurgen Klopp prepares to blood youth at Plymouth, how many of the club's 21st-century starlets made the grade?

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp could hand a debut to Harry Wilson when his side visit Plymouth, with the teenager the latest hot property to come off the Anfield club's conveyor belt of talent.

Since the year 2000, nearly 40 youngsters have emerged from Liverpool's academy to make a first-team appearance for the Reds - with varying degrees of success.

Here, Sportsmail runs down the 'next best things' of the 21st century to have got a chance at Anfield... and what happened next.

To qualify, the players in question needed to have spent at least six months in the club's academy and gone on to make a first-team appearance for Liverpool.