@Livvy i knew you’d get it…but we get the free work done for us by the new German manager or else he sleeps on the settee 
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The 10 years under Klopp were nice, hopefully we don’t slip back into 30 years of mediocrity as things seem to be a basket case.
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its funny how time alters perception. we were all mostly excited when it was anounced he was coming back and now we are not arsed he is actually leaving this time around
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Funny how an hour ago none of these lot knew fuck all…now they know he informed them last year…really should be working for Nige …bunch of grifters.
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Yeah, that’s easy to say, but the reality is that the high turnover at the upper echelons is becoming problematic and between Slot, Hughes and Edwards, the latter was the least to bear responsibility for the disastrous season.
I am not concerned if Hughes stays or not, but Edwards’ leaving is a blow. He will be highly sought after.
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I was expecting this. Edwards came back with the multi club model in mind. It was a step up for him, in theory. As it transpired that didn’t happen, so it has always felt like a matter of time for me.
Wider issues now come to the fore. Is Hughes going too? And what are the future plans of FSG? Do they want to sell? Do they want to maintain? (Dangerous). Do they want to build?
There’s a sense in which you have to build or you go backwards. Iraola’s appointment gives me renewed hope after it all went stale last season. I’m looking forward to seeing what he can do at Liverpool. But things need to be stable and supportive above him.
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to be honest, not so much. i think looking at other clubs and how successfull they have been in running clubs, there is always someone else just as good or even better. this to me is more of the end of the klopp era now and with hughes leaving that finally closes that door. time for renewal. lets see what it brings
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With the caveat that he wasnt doing the job he was previously praised for and so its not clear that his exit will mean anything for the football club, other than remove a confidante for Hughes
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Lol. Money for nothing. How did he support him? Been a right grift from Edwards this has.
Which clubs are going to be doing the milti-club thing? That’s what he wants right?
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exactly this
yep, i agree…
He obviously has a vision for himself at the head of a multi-club operation. Quite why that is so appealing to him I can’t say but given that he was brought in to work on a multi-club set-up it’s not surprising he wasn’t happy when it fell through.
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True, but that doesn’t mean that he was sitting on his hands ever since the mult-club model was put on the shelf. He must have provided input and guidance, and his know-how and expertise are not readily found.
It would have been better to retain him in some capacity, but I understand that he is the one driving this and not the club.
I’d been wondering whether FSG would try to find a way to bring him back to being more involved in the recruitment when Hughes leaves, but seems pretty clear he has no interest in doing that again.
The Hughes thing annoys me more. And it’s not even about him per se, more that the role requires a longer-term appointment to see the benefits from it, and the revolving door policy we’ve had there ever since Edwards left the first time causes us more issues than it solves.
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I am not surprised and I am not bothered, if he fancies a ‘multi-club’ ownership model, then he can go Eneos and work for Jim Radcliffe.
When is Robot 
going? Can’t wait for him to go.
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Yeah he has always been pretty adamant he was not interested in coming back for that sort of role, not just to us but to anyone. He was looking for more an executive role and Im honestly surprised they couldnt carve something out for him within FSG as part of the succession planning they have been doing
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Losing Edwards, and probably Hughes too isn’t the setback it looks like. The clubs that have actually cracked the code, Bournemouth, Brentford, Brighton, all treat player and staff departures as routine, because the whole model is built around systems, not individuals. Recruitment and development, all of it, is designed to keep working when someone gets poached by a bigger club. That’s basically happened to them every year (recruitment staff being poached), and it hasn’t slowed them down, because the system itself is the asset, not any one person passing through it. And with Mike Gordon steady at the wheel as managing partner for as long as he has been, that continuity at the top is exactly what lets the system hold together through changes below it.
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Edwards is in a bit of an awkward spot. Very few jobs available that wouldn’t represent a sideways or downwards move.
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"The one constant throughout all the comings and goings - and returns - has been Mike Gordon, who is effectively the managing owner.
His low-key, analytical demeanour and rational thinking is viewed internally as having been central to Liverpool’s rise."
[Paul Joyce]
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