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I believe he gave more debuts than us. In fact i think it was one of the most in the prem. Will try to find it but difficult.
OK so I've found what you're on about after a bit of digging around, and basically right towards the end of the season there were 5 or 6 kids who were given a few minutes late in games and a couple of them got starts but that was right at the end of the season when Mourinho had pretty much sacked off the league and was focusing on winning the Europa League to get CL qualification because he knew 4th was gone. So technically, yes, he gave a lot of kids their debuts last season. But that's hardly the same as, for example, Pochettino who has consistently shown he's not afraid to give young players chances with an aim to making them first team regulars. Mourinho almost certainly has no intention of phasing these kids in to his team, he was just using them to give his proper players a rest in what he had deemed to be dead rubber games.
Anyway, my original point was that the poster above was claiming Klopp is a manager who has no interest in developing young players but that's not the case based on his history with Mainz and Dortmund.