Arne Slot‘s backroom workers at Liverpool is beginning to take form, with new faces noticed in pre-season alongside coaches who stay from the earlier period.
The Reds have completed their first week of pre-season on the AXA Coaching Centre, with Mohamed Salah the headline identify concerned thus far.
Slot has included a number of children in his periods as he awaits the return of key gamers from obligation on the Euros and Copa America, permitting the brand new head coach to chart the way forward for his squad.
He does so alongside a new-look backroom workers, with This Is Anfield figuring out 11 of his assist group from pre-season thus far.
These embody Sipke Hulshoff and Ruben Peeters, who adopted Slot from Feyenoord within the roles of first assistant coach and lead bodily efficiency coach respectively.
Liverpool coaches noticed in pre-season thus far
Arne Slot – Head coachSipke Hulshoff – First assistant coachRuben Peeters – Lead bodily efficiency coachFabian Otte – Head of first-team goalkeeper coachingMark Morris – Goalkeeper coach (normally U21s)Aaron Briggs – First-team particular person growth coachConall Murtagh – First-team health coachJack Ade – Head of PDP fitnessEd Harper – Bodily efficiency coachLee Nobes – Head of physiotherapyChris Morgan – First-team physiotherapistJordan Fairclough – Assistant health coach
Newly appointed head of first-team goalkeeper teaching Fabian Otte has arrived after his spell at Copa America with the USA, and he’s at the moment being supported by U21s goalkeeping coach Mark Morris.
Morris’ involvement comes with Claudio Taffarel on a post-season break after his obligation as goalkeeping coach for Brazil, and it stays to be seen whether or not he shall be promoted on a full-time foundation.
Slot’s teaching workers has additionally been bolstered by the appointment of Aaron Briggs as first-team particular person growth coach.
With the early weeks of pre-season primarily involved with health, coaches and physios from that sector have been outstanding in these first periods.
? Dr Jack Ade (left) and Ed Harper (proper) a part of #LFC workers overseeing pre-season.
Ade left membership after eight years in 2022 to affix Rangers, however now again as head of PDP health at Liverpool.
Harper has been at membership since 2021, now holds the function of bodily efficiency coach. pic.twitter.com/09SGQOJOJR
— Jack Lusby (@LusbyJack) July 12, 2024
That features first-team health coach Conall Murtagh, head of PDP health Jack Ade, bodily efficiency coach Ed Harper and assistant health coach Jordan Fairclough.
Ade not too long ago returned to Liverpool after a quick spell as head of efficiency at Rangers, having beforehand spent eight years on Merseyside as head of elite health growth.
Harper, in the meantime, has been with the Reds since 2021, and seems to have taken up a brand new place after initially serving as a health coach.
Lee Nobes stays as head of physiotherapy, whereas Chris Morgan has been overseeing periods within the gymnasium in his function as first-team physio.
Slot’s workers is, after all, a lot bigger than that, however these 11 names have already been noticed in pre-season whereas the rest work behind the scenes.
Liverpool shall be boosted by the return of Taffarel within the coming weeks, whereas they’re nonetheless anticipated to nominate a brand new first-team coach and a specialist set-piece coach.
Ex-Everton defender John Heitinga is at the moment in talks with the membership over the function of first-team coach, whereas progress is being made in filling the latter place.