With the introduction of the brand new Liverpool sporting director, Richard Hughes, Robbie Fowler has defined how he can successfully work with the subsequent supervisor.
On the prime of Hughes’ record shall 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 informed This Is Anfield: “You don’t go into soccer desirous to encompass yourselves with yes-men.
“You need folks to query you, you need folks to ask questions and also you need to query them.
“However, it’s acquired to be a two-way avenue, and lots of the questions I’m form of getting requested now’s ‘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 approach 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 mentioned about whether or not a sporting director can work with the supervisor,” Fowler informed This Is Anfield‘s David Lynch in February.
“I at all times felt that he wasn’t working with me; it turned out he had his personal plans and simply wished to deliver his personal folks in.”
Now, Fowler provides: “You’ve acquired to be combating 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 when you’re attempting to do one thing and possibly somebody’s attempting to cease that.
“It turns into a little bit of a multitude and a little bit of a disjointed event, everybody’s acquired to sing from the identical hymn sheet.”
Liverpool’s subsequent supervisor shall be performing beneath 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 may even must work carefully with the Reds’ scouting crew, who’re including Bournemouth‘s chief scout Mark Birchall and scouting co-ordinator Craig McKee, in line with BBC Sport.
Fortunately, Liverpool don’t have to look too far for brand new expertise on the pitch. A wave of more-than-capable kids are coming via the Reds’ academy, like Fowler did within the early Nineteen Nineties.
The striker made his Liverpool debut at 18 and went on to attain 183 objectives in 369 appearances.
Talking concerning the present crop of younger gamers, Fowler mentioned: “In the event you’re ok, you’re sufficiently old. I believe that’s confirmed in not solely myself, however in a number of gamers.
“However look, who’re we to say something about Jurgen?
“Jurgen’s most likely the most effective supervisor on this planet at present and he’s most likely acquired a much bigger squad to play with than what squads have had prior to now.
“I believe that possibly performs a component however, you understand, we’re speaking about the most effective supervisor on this planet, we all know that.
“He’s intelligent and astute by way of how he needs his crew to play, how he needs his squad to play.
“Bringing within the younger youngsters at instances when, at instances, we’ve most likely wanted them, however nonetheless managed to regulate the minutes and I believe that claims every little thing about him, not solely as a supervisor but additionally as an individual.
“I believe he realises the hazards that possibly some gamers can get into later of their profession.”
