Jurgen Klopp has pledged Liverpool’s total support to Rhian Brewster in his fight against racism.
Brewster regularly hit the headlines this year as a star for both the Reds’ under-18 outfit and with England’s World Cup-winning u17 side.
But the 17-year-old suffered racist abuse in a UEFA Youth League game against Spartak Moscow at the beginning of December.
The incident prompted Brewster to speak out in a newspaper interview, where he claimed that racial abuse had been a regular occurrence for him since aged 12.
Klopp has echoed the widespread praise that the youngster received and vowed that the club will provide all resources possible to help him battle the issue.
He said: “We will give him all the support he needs and wants.
“It’s quite interesting because I’m long in this business and I’ve never faced a situation like that.
“A lot of people think it doesn’t happen but obviously it does all the time.
“I’m really happy that he’s brave enough to do what he did because it’s such an important thing.
“I can’t believe that people have these kind of thoughts still in their mind, it’s so strange in this world that is happens.
“Obviously we needed a 17-year-old boy to say ‘here it’s still happening, I need help, we need help to stop it’.
“We are all really happy about him, it’s not a celebration you want a 17-year-old boy to be in but if it is like this and he needs help, we will give it to him of course.”