Liverpool are reportedly trying throughout the Premier League for potential replacements for Jorg Schmadtke because the membership’s sporting director.
It was confirmed on Friday that the 59-year-old will step down from the function on the finish of the January switch window later this week, necessitating a 3rd new appointment in that place because the summer time of 2022.
On Monday morning, HITC reported that Anfield chiefs have already begun the seek for a substitute and have three males in thoughts from fellow English top-flight golf equipment.
Richard Hughes (Bournemouth), Lee Dykes (Brentford) and Sam Jewell (Brighton) are all reportedly admired by Liverpool, with ‘homework’ achieved on these potential candidates.
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Former Arsenal and Portsmouth midfielder Hughes has labored behind the scenes on the Vitality Stadium for the previous decade, being concerned of their preliminary promotion to the Premier League in 2015 and the whole lot of their time within the high flight ever since.
The Cherries have pulled off a number of eye-catching younger signings underneath his watch, together with Illya Zabarnyi, Milos Kerkez, Tyler Adams, Dango Ouattara, Max Aarons and Alex Scott, with the latter having been linked with Liverpool in latest months.
Dykes has been Brentford’s technical director since 2022, stepping up three years after changing into the membership’s head of scouting, figuring out quite a few gamers who’ve shaped the spine of their spectacular performances within the high flight since their promotion from the Championship in 2021.
Jewell is the son of former Premier League supervisor Paul, who stored Bradford up in 2000 and took Wigan to unprecedented heights later that decade.
Brighton’s head of scouting is simply 34 and has been concerned in lots of the Seagulls’ most notable transfers each out and in of the Amex Stadium, together with the mortgage addition of Ansu Fati and the vastly worthwhile gross sales of Moises Caicedo and Alexis Mac Allister final summer time (The Athletic).
He additionally noticed the likes of Leo Ostigard and Viktor Gyokeres earlier than they joined the south coast membership, with each gamers since occurring to make a telling affect at a excessive stage in Europe with Napoli and Sporting Lisbon respectively.
All three candidates seem to have good CVs, and whoever Liverpool in the end appoint as Schmadtke’s successor, hopefully they’ll be within the job for the lengthy haul after a two-year interval which has seen Michael Edwards, Julian Ward and now the German all step other than the sporting director function at Anfield.
