What we're hearing about Liverpool's hunt for a sporting director and their next manager
It is just over a month since at the end of the season. On the field, the club has barely missed a beat, retaining their place at the top of the , winning the Carabao Cup and making progress in the as they pursue an unprecedented quadruple. Off it, however, the questions over who will succeed Klopp and who will become the new sporting director continue to hang over the club. This is the latest on both searches as we understand it.
The club are also open to the possibility of scrapping that job title entirely and appointing a football chief executive officer, depending on the candidate’s skillset. In terms of contenders, that Frederic Massara, the former director of football at , and Nice’s Florent Ghisolfi were both admired by FSG. The candidate that Liverpool’s owners would most like to hire, however, is Michael Edwards — the man who previously served as sporting director until his departure in May 2022.