Somebody already made this point, just with more wit and frivolity.
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Ah poo
I peaked elsewhere today anyway
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Happy for you, bro.
Ta, it was fleeting though
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Given Edwards was brought in to oversee this, I wonder where this leaves him. Back to sporting director if Hughes goes to Saudi? Clean slate at the top of the club?
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Seems about right, unless Edward’s wants more, having tasted life a bit higher up the food chain.
Screw it.
Get Jurgen back ad manager and give the Sporting Director’s job to Rafa.
And then sit back and watch what happens. They’ll either work really well together or end up dueling at dawn.
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If Hughes is going then changes are a foot frankly. Regardless of the money he will get if there is a possibility of him going then FSG evidently are asking questions of him. I do also feel it leaves Slot vulnerable but then who knows he might be gone even sooner.
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We will not get a new coach/manager in until we sort out the Sporting Director situation. If there’s a new SD coming in, he may have own ideas what he wants with a coach/manager. That’s why Hughes leaving is going to cause a lot of mess with current Slot situation.
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Would depend if it’s short or long term and whether Edwards would stand in for now. Let’s be honest whatever plan they have currently isn’t working and would a mess of made up thinking do any worse… nope.
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This is something that worries me a little bit, because it might be another field where we might have question marks to solve very soon.
I thought fine, now with Edwards in a completely new role (yet to see whether him in that role is even good for us) and Hughes in as a new guy below, now let them work for a few years as we surely need to rebuild the side post Klopp.
Obviously got some decisions right and some have been so-so at best, needing time to see what they had in mind.
I had no idea that Edwards’ contract was up to 2027, as well as Hughes’ and Slot’s. Or that he was tied to a similar kind of contract like them.
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I’ve been wondering whether Edwards even likes that role. If the club aren’t going for a multi-club model, his position is effectively redundant anyway. Hughes is rumoured to be on the way out and Slot’s position looks precarious regardless.
The senior positions at the club look a complete mess at the moment. After Klopp left, there was, effectively, a complete reset. Are we going to have another one after only two years?
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Yeah, impossible to tell, since he never appears in the media unless it’s for some announcement textual interviews and stuff. From the start, I must assume he liked the idea because he accepted it. But it’s a bit worrying as those are the football decision makers.
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Aaron Mooy was before Savinho wasn’t he? Played at Newcastle Jets then moved to Melbourne City, then to Man City before the sold him to Huddersfield
I’m pretty sure he never played for City
It is concerning how we seem to chew through Sporting Directors. Not really sure the reason as it’s not like we have owners who are publically applying insane amounts of pressure to the job. Maybe behind the scenes it is different.
But the club needs to decide on a direction and changing Sporting Directors every 12 months really isn’t helping. Kind of calls into question what Richard Hughes’ motivations are too. Sporting Directors are hired to shape a club’s future. Is that really what he’s looking to do at Al-Hilal or wherever the fuck in Saudi Arabia he’s going?
I’ve been to Saudi - have fun Richard, it’s a fucking shithole.
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If it is his choice to go to Saudi, it’s money. Poor form, but the players will follow the money so I suppose it’s not fair to expect the execs to be different.
If it is our choice to move him on, it begs the question what is going wrong and what should he be doing that he is not doing?
It seems we have a fair bit of churn around a few important positions at the moment. When Mike Gordon was more hands on it seemed more stable.
I thought it was interesting in that recent sit down they all did where it was said something along of the lines of him and Slot being judged on the same timeline, but Edwards and Gordon had a longer term perspective. It struck me because typically you would differentiate between the manager and the Sporting Director, or whatever they are called in their role, in terms of the time scale over which success or failure is measured for them.
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Yeah I think he referred to Hogan didn’t he. It did stick out to be honest.
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Yeah money, but in that case, he was a freaking poor choice for that job in the first place. If he wasn’t interested in the long term aspect of coming to LFC, why even bother? We’ll see how it pans out. Are these rumours even genuine, or just the usual social media trash?