On September 16, 2017, Liverpool played out a 1-1 draw with Burnley at Anfield. It was a negative result for the Reds, but manager Jurgen Klopp took comfort in the one big positive: a lively cameo from second-half substitute Dominic Solanke, the 20-year-old striker who had only just joined the club from Chelsea and very nearly won the game for his new club with a late effort that struck the bar.
"It's exciting, absolutely exciting. I'm really happy to have him around. He's a wonderful kid," Klopp told reporters. "He takes the minutes - each minute - as an opportunity. That's the benefit of [his] age.
"When you are this age and you didn't play so often in the Premier League, then it's a Premier League game in the stats, whether it's one minute, two minutes, it's five, it's 20. He doesn't care too much about this and you can see this - he's full of joy and quality."
The sense of excitement surrounding Solanke eventually gave way to frustration, though. He scored just one goal for Liverpool, which arrived at the end of his only full season at Anfield, with Solanke sold midway through his second, to Bournemouth.
A lot has happened since then, but the Solanke that Liverpool will go up against at the Vitality Stadium this weekend is finally looking like the complete centre-forward that Klopp - and indeed Jose Mourinho - believed he was destined to become.