Explained: How Liverpool’s next manager can work with a sporting director – Liverpool FC

With the introduction of the brand new Liverpool sporting director, Richard Hughes, Robbie Fowler has defined how he can successfully work with the following supervisor.

On the high of Hughes’ record can be to rent a successor to Jurgen Klopp. With Michael Edwards additionally concerned within the appointment, the pair might want to decide somebody they’ll work with, however not a yes-man, says Fowler.

The legendary striker advised This Is Anfield: “You don’t go into soccer eager to encompass yourselves with yes-men.

“You need folks to query you, you need folks to ask questions and also you wish to query them.

“However, it’s acquired to be a two-way road, and plenty of the questions I’m form of getting requested now could be ‘can a supervisor work with a sporting director?’.

“They completely can, they actually can, however there’s additionally acquired to be the query the opposite method spherical, ‘can the sporting director work with the supervisor?’.”

Fowler speaks from expertise having endured a rocky relationship with Carlos Anton, the technical director at his final membership, Al-Qadsiah.

“Not sufficient will get stated about whether or not a sporting director can work with the supervisor,” Fowler advised This Is Anfield‘s David Lynch in February.

“I all the time felt that he wasn’t working with me; it turned out he had his personal plans and simply wished to carry his personal folks in.”

Now, Fowler provides: “You’ve acquired to be preventing for a similar end result, and so long as everybody’s engaged on that very same sheet of clean paper, then it turns into quite a bit simpler, versus should you’re making an attempt to do one thing and possibly somebody’s making an attempt to cease that.

“It turns into a little bit of a large number and a little bit of a disjointed event, everybody’s acquired to sing from the identical hymn sheet.”

Liverpool’s subsequent supervisor can be appearing underneath a restructured hierarchy on the membership, with Edwards now working as CEO of Soccer for FSG and assuming a task above sporting director Hughes.

The brand new coach will even must work carefully with the Reds’ scouting group, who’re including Bournemouth‘s chief scout Mark Birchall and scouting co-ordinator Craig McKee, in accordance with BBC Sport.

Fortunately, Liverpool don’t must look too far for brand new expertise on the pitch. A wave of more-than-capable children are coming by the Reds’ academy, like Fowler did within the early Nineties.

The striker made his Liverpool debut at 18 and went on to attain 183 objectives in 369 appearances.

Talking in regards to the present crop of younger gamers, Fowler stated: “If you happen to’re adequate, you’re sufficiently old. I believe that’s confirmed in not solely myself, however in numerous gamers.

“However look, who’re we to say something about Jurgen?

“Jurgen’s in all probability the most effective supervisor on the planet at present and he’s in all probability acquired a much bigger squad to play with than what squads have had up to now.

“I believe that possibly performs a component however, you already know, we’re speaking about the most effective supervisor on the planet, we all know that.

“He’s intelligent and astute when it comes to how he needs his group to play, how he needs his squad to play.

“Bringing within the younger youngsters at instances when, at instances, we’ve in all probability wanted them, however nonetheless managed to manage the minutes and I believe that claims the whole lot about him, not solely as a supervisor but in addition as an individual.

“I believe he realises the risks that possibly some gamers can get into later of their profession.”