Liverpool are but to formally appoint a specialist set-piece coach after posting a job advert over the summer time, and it transpires that they missed their No. 1 goal.
Again in Could, it emerged that Liverpool have been searching for to comply with the likes of Arsenal, Aston Villa and Chelsea in appointing their very own specialist set-piece coach.
A job advert was posted on the membership’s official channels in addition to LinkedIn, just for their search to be paused in September, with first-team improvement coach Aaron Briggs filling the function.
That comes after Liverpool didn’t land their precedence goal in Feyenoord’s Etienne Reijnen, who was at one level believed to be near a transfer to Merseyside.
When Liverpool appeared set to land Reijnen, it was unclear precisely which function he would take up on Arne Slot‘s employees, however it will in truth have concerned main set-pieces.
Talking to Algemeen Dagblad final month, the Liverpool head coach highlighted the function of his former colleague.
“Etienne Reijnen continues to be at Feyenoord and I just lately learn that Brian Priske (Slot’s successor) was stuffed with reward for him,” Slot mentioned.
“The set-pieces are a power at Feyenoord and Reijnen nonetheless takes care of them.”
Feyenoord have scored the fourth-most set-piece objectives to date on this season’s Eredivisie with eight, which might be joint-second within the Premier League and significantly greater than Liverpool who’ve the second-fewest with two.
Reijnen’s proposed swap fell by way of attributable to work allow points, with the 37-year-old as a substitute remaining in his place as analyst and technical advisor for the Dutch membership, however Liverpool might revive their curiosity sooner or later.
That will clarify their determination to park any seek for a specialist and depend on Briggs to fill the function in the interim.
Briggs’ duties inside Slot’s employees are wide-ranging, together with main coaching periods and bridging the primary staff and academy squads, and his time is understandably divided.
That makes it possible that Liverpool will finally appoint a brand new set-piece coach and that would come if Reijnen is finally eligible for a UK work allow.
The membership confronted so no such problem in buying a piece allow for Slot and assist employees similar to Sipke Hulshoff, Ruben Peeters and Roderick van der Ham, who all moved to Anfield from Feyenoord.
