Paul Joyce has lifted the lid on Michael Edwards’ ‘face-to-face talks’ with FSG in Boston.
Liverpool’s former sporting director is known to be against returning to Anfield in a sporting director capability.
The Merseysiders seem like eager on a shake-up of types within the hierarchy for the 2024/25 season and past.
“Michael Edwards has held face-to-face talks with Liverpool’s house owners as they try to influence him to return to the membership and assist oversee the post-Jürgen Klopp period,” the Times journalist wrote.
“The assembly occurred in Boston final weekend, with Edwards chatting with the Fenway Sports activities Group (FSG) proprietor, John W Henry, and president Mike Gordon. The talks are a big growth on condition that Edwards had beforehand turned down an preliminary strategy to come back again to Liverpool.
“It’s unclear at this stage precisely what pitch Henry and Gordon made to Edwards, who spent a decade at Liverpool between 2012 and 2022, however the function could be above his earlier job as sporting director.”
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Curiosity in Richard Hughes is intriguing given the unbelievable progress Bournemouth have made on and off the pitch.
If one of the crucial profitable sporting administrators within the trendy soccer period believes he’d be a strong match for a post-Klopp Liverpool – we’d be inclined to take the Englishman on his phrase.
There’ll be loads of different candidates to contemplate within the course of, after all, with the likes of Tim Steidten at West Ham additionally linked with the vacant function at L4.
On the very least, having a dependable operator like Edwards on the helm would assure a much-needed diploma of continuity past our supervisor’s impending exit.
