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The departure of Claudio Taffarel from Liverpool signals the extremity of a moving narration betwixt Alisson and 1 of his relation models.
Liverpool confirmed respective changes to Arne Slot's coaching unit connected Wednesday, with Taffarel and Fabian Otte departing, and being replaced by Xabi Valero.
Valero antecedently worked astatine Liverpool nether Rafa Benitez, and returns to Liverpool arsenic the caller caput of first-team goalkeeper coaching,
It volition beryllium absorbing to cognize what Alisson makes of the determination to portion ways with Taffarel, who helium has worked alongside connected Merseyside for the past 4 years.
Taffarel took up a coaching accidental nether Jurgen Klopp successful 2011, and Alisson revealed past twelvemonth however overmuch helium enjoyed moving with the legendary erstwhile Brazil goalkeeper, who made implicit 100 appearances for the Selecao and won the World Cup successful 1994.
“We are moving unneurotic since 10 years I deliberation successful the nationalist team,” Alisson said of Taffarel, who besides worked arsenic manager for the Brazil nationalist squad betwixt 2014 and 2023.
“I deliberation it is truly earthy from the beginning. Sometimes erstwhile you person bully friends you don’t request to talk to propulsion each other, you conscionable person to act. I similar to enactment hard, helium knows that. And helium likes to enactment hard, I cognize that.
“I deliberation our occupation is [making sure] that we don’t propulsion excessively overmuch – sometimes we person to power a small spot the sessions. But we person a truly bully narration arsenic friends and it doesn’t marque america much brushed to each other, it makes america much hard to each other.
“And he’s not the benignant of feline that is gonna travel to maine and say, ‘Look to this game, you didn’t marque what I said to you to make’. No, he’s a truly chill guy.”
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Alisson added: “He (Taffarel) volition accidental possibly sometimes, ‘Maybe that extremity you concede, possibly your positioning could beryllium different. Maybe you could mode a spot much to enactment towards the shot towards the striker, you moved excessively early’ – those tiny things.
“But we recognize each different conscionable successful the mode we look to each different and we know. So he’s a feline who helps maine a lot, not lone talking but the mode helium acts. He is simply a relation exemplary arsenic a idiosyncratic and having him moving connected my side, I americium truthful lucky. I americium truthful fortunate for that.”
As good arsenic the reshuffle of the goalkeeping department, Giovanni van Bronckhorst has been appointed arsenic Slot's caller adjunct coach. That presumption was near vacant by Johnny Heitinga's determination to go Ajax's caput manager respective weeks ago.
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