Former Liverpool defender Djimi Traore waxed lyrical about Monaco star Magnes Akliouche on talkSPORT Breakfast on Thursday morning.Akliouche has been a revelation for the French giants this season, and marked his 24th birthday with a goal in Wednesday’s Champions League playoff second leg stalemate with PSG.Akliouche is one of the most promising creative players in FranceAFPWhile Sebastien Pocognoli’s side crashed out of the competition 5-4 on aggregate, a result that saw the defending champions progress to the round-of-16, the France international has caught the attention of a number of heavy hitters following his assist last week and goal in midweek.Tottenham were credited with an interest in Akliouche over the summer, and again in the January transfer window, but opted against making a move for the creative star.And Traore, who is now the manager of Les Monegasques’ academy side, has revealed that he is fielding calls from heavy hitters that enquire about the club’s academy product.The main Mon“He’s a fantastic player, you know,” Traore said on talkSPORT Breakfast with Alan Brazil and Gabby Agbonlahor.“Some people call me about him, you know, even last year, you know, from the top club. And I always recommend the club to pick him because he’s a top talent. He’s only like 24.“And he’s not hit the ceiling yet. So he’s very good on the ball, very technical. He can create chances, he can score goals. He has good pace.“Now, what we need from him, because he’s a young player, is to be more consistent. But if you play on the team, you know, that keep the ball more and stay more in position, you can see like all his best attributes.”Akliouche isn’t the only promising star to recently come through the Monaco ranks to make the first team.Eliesse Ben Seghir, Chrislain Matsima and Soungoutou Magassa all featured for the senior side before respective moves to Bayer Leverkusen, Augsburg and West Ham.Monaco’s famed academyThe academy also produced the likes of Thierry Henry, David Trezeguet and current Real Madrid star Kylian Mbappe.Mbappe is one of a number of global superstars to have come through the Monaco ranksGettyTraore went on to discuss the club’s youth system with Brazil and Agbonlahor, adding: “Yes, we have a very, very good pathway, you know, just like the way we recruit players, you know, and the way we develop players.“That’s one of the reasons why I’m in Monaco. My second year there, I can tell you I coached some very, very talented players.“But now the hard part for them is to be patient, because most of them, they want to go and play in the third team very, very early.And they don’t understand like it’s a step by step.“So that’s what’s the hard part for me as a coach with the B team, is to keep the guys motivated and keep the guy working every single day to go through in the first team.“Because at the end of the day, when you go through in the first team, you’ve been there before, you want to play straight away. Sometimes you need patience.“And that’s why like the young generation, some of them are not very patient. And some of them, you know, it makes the wrong choice.”Monaco were unfortunate across both Champions League legs against PSG having been reduced to 10 men at a key point at the Stade Louis II and the Parc des Princes, losing Aleksandr Golovin and Mamadou Coulibaly, respectively.They’ll hope to quickly bounce back from their European disappointment and extend their Ligue 1 unbeaten run to six games with a third successive victory when they take on Angers this weekend.