After rejecting the supply to return to Liverpool as sporting director out of hand, Michael Edwards has now met with Fenway Sports activities Group over a distinct function.
That’s in keeping with the Merseyside press, who imagine Edwards’ assembly with Liverpool proprietor John W Henry and FSG president Mike Gordon was to debate a wider function.
It comes simply over every week on from reviews that the 44-year-old would demand vital management over soccer operations if he had been to return after two years away.
The Occasions‘ Paul Joyce explains that, after Edwards attended the MIT Sloan Sports activities Analytics Convention in Boston, he held talks with Henry and Gordon in the identical metropolis on Sunday.
Whereas there isn’t any indication at this stage whether or not these conversations had a optimistic conclusion, it’s defined that “readability on whether or not Edwards might be tempted to return to Anfield is predicted quickly.”
Andy Hunter of the Guardian provides that Edwards “can be anticipated to move the recruitment and analytics departments.”
This would come with appointing a sporting director and, in fact, the following supervisor, with Joyce suggesting that outgoing Bournemouth technical director Richard Hughes may fill the previous function.
In the case of Jurgen Klopp‘s successor, Joyce, Hunter and the Telegraph‘s Chris Bascombe all preserve that Xabi Alonso is the main candidate.
Nevertheless, Bascombe provides that Liverpool “may have contingency plans within the unlikely occasion that Alonso rejects the prospect to satisfy FSG officers.”
Sporting CP’s Ruben Amorim is called by all three journalists instead, although Alonso is claimed to be “conscious about Liverpool’s curiosity.”
Edwards has successfully been out of soccer since his resolution to depart the Reds in 2022, as an alternative serving as a advisor for sports activities advisor firm Ludonautics.
Ludonautics was based by Ian Graham, the previous Liverpool director of analysis, who himself solely left the membership final yr.
