Ben Doak is Scotland's Arjen Robben as Liverpool insider reveals what Andy Robertson won't stop 'shouting' at winger

Ben Doak has the same skillset as Arjen Robben and Marc Overmars according to Jurgen Klopp's No.2 – and he'll reach the very top as long as he keeps heeding Andy Robertson's words of wisdom.

Doak has been heavily involved with the Liverpool first-team this season and started his first European game against LASK last week. He's still some way down the pecking order with Mo Salah and Luis Diaz setting the standards on the wings but 17-year-old Doak, already established above his age group with the Scotland U21s, is expected to keep on rising in the months and years ahead.

Pep Lijnders, Klopp's long-serving lieutenant, is all too aware he has the ability to go to the very top but insists he has plenty to learn from the world class leaders in the Liverpool squad before he gets there. And a simple one-word message from Scotland skipper Robertson is helping keep him in line for now.

Lijnders said: "Ben is young so a lot of things can happen. I had the privilege to grow up in Holland, so we have a long tactical culture of Johan Cruyff. They always said the most special players and the way we wanted to play in the past – and still with a lot of teams – is this idea of having the wingers on the outside, can create, can really use one-on-ones to disorganise the opposition with their speed.

"In the past that was Marc Overmars, Arjen Robben, this kind of player, before that in my country we had Johnny Rep, Rob Rensenbrink, so we have this culture of wingers. And then if you get a young winger from Scotland that's only 17 years old and has this capacity to create and to reach the final line with the individual skill or individual movements, it's nice to see.

"The good thing with Ben, in my opinion, is that he comes into a squad with