Reading up on TIA it looks like Etienne Reijnen was meant to be in that position but we couldn’t get a work permit for him. So basically a Brexit bonus, although you would have expected someone in legal to have picked up that was an issue.
Yep - he didn’t have the required coaching qualifications to get the work permit/visa and stayed on as assistant coach at Feynoord where he still works. But that was Summer 2024…long time since then to sort it.
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It’s interesting how quickly it has shifted to everything being interpreted through the prism of assumed incompetence. Reijnen was one of the team Slot identified that he wanted to bring with him from Holland and was told it would be unlikely because of the work permit issues.
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Up until the Arse fans drank the Kool Aid and did a mural for theirs, nobody gave two hoots about the set piece coach.
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All I really want from a set piece coach is that they can teach our lads to head it away and they don’t hop about like a lunatic on the touchline every time we get a corner, like that prick at Arsenal.
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not really.
football isnt so sophisticated that a ‘set piece coach’ is someone who has studied the art of set pieces in tertiary education and has worked his (or hers) way up through the clubs by improving set pieces from divvy 4 onwards…theres no grass roots role for that job.
hes a firstly a football coach/trainer, who is tasked with working on set peices…
i understand how its a position, but i think we are overestimating the game if we think its a career in itself.
Slot and Virgil can have a whinge about it all tey like, but really, if its not working, they ultimately have more control over the situation than a bit part coach…
take the penalty Virgil gave up a few weeks back, or even the goal we conceded Vs Wolves…no one could ever convince me its on a specialist coach who may get ‘x’ amount of access to the playing squad, to rectify those very basic mistakes.
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Hot take there. Amazing how these guys come crawling out the woodwork.
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I remember when we were laughed at for bringing in a specialist throw-in coach. Now apparently people in the upper echelons don’t know what they’re doing and we’re losing ground to our rivals.
Reality is we appointed someone to look after the set-piece aspect. He’s not done a great job so has been sacked and the rest of the coaching group will look after it until a suitable replacement is found.
The teeth gnashing around this is quite funny really.
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It’s an amazing piece.
“Briggs is an analyst not a set piece specialist.” It then goes on to list various set pieces “specialists” who are actually analysts and points out that set piece specialists are essentially former analysts who were eventually given authority over set pieces
In recent years, many analysts have made the natural progression to become a coach-analyst, so that might be an area Liverpool choose to explore when they consider a replacement for Briggs.
You mean Briggs’ career path?
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It’s almost as if the job of looking at set pieces involves a degree of analysis.
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The only relevant part of the piece is the suggestion that candidates turned us down over concerns on the amount of autonomy they’d have. That is a claim I have seen no where else. Not only does Evans skate right over it not elaborating or pointing to additional reporting on it, he doesn’t think it relevant to link that supposed issue to where things went wrong under Briggs and what that means for the likely success of any replacement?
This is just pure guy down the pub bullshit, like the Paul Whitehouse character from the Fast Show who never agrees with himself one sentence after the next
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Who gives a shit?
I mean if a professional footballer playing for a top European team doesn’t know how to defend what the fuck is he doing there?
The whole fucking lot need a kick up the arse before it’s not just VVD throwing his hands at the ball, which admittedly is better than covering his eyes with them in fright, and giving away penalties galore.
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Add another to the list of people Arne couldn’t improve through coaching.
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