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When Liverpool’s players return to preseason grooming adjacent week, determination volition surely beryllium a consciousness of alteration astatine the AXA Training Centre.
While it whitethorn lone beryllium the opening of July, Arne Slot’s squad has gone done a important fig of alterations already this summer. Trent Alexander-Arnold, Caoimhin Kelleher and Jarell Quansah are the high-profile exits, but Nat Phillips has besides left, on with goalkeepers Vitezslav Jaros and Harvey Davies, who person some departed connected loan.
Replacements person already been secured. Jeremie Frimpong, Florian Wirtz and Milos Kerkez person acceptable the Reds backmost to the tune of £170million ($232M), with much expected this window. Giorgi Mamardashvili is besides acceptable to kickstart his Liverpool career, 10 months aft signing for the Reds, and helium has been joined successful the goalkeeping section by Freddie Woodman and Armin Pecsi.
But the changes person not been constricted to players. Liverpool confirmed connected Wednesday that Giovanni van Bronckhorst volition instrumentality up the relation of Slot’s assistant, replacing John Heitinga, who moved to Ajax earlier this summer.
The assignment of Van Bronckhorst, the erstwhile Dutch planetary who has enjoyed spells managing Feyenoord, Guangzhou R&F and Rangers, is seen arsenic a existent coup for the club. He volition enactment alongside Sipke Hulshoff arsenic Slot’s assistants.
Meanwhile, Liverpool besides announced the assignment of Xavi Valero arsenic the club’s caller pb goalkeeper coach. The Spaniard antecedently worked astatine the nine during Rafael Benitez’s tenure astatine Anfield.
He has replaced erstwhile goalkeeping coaches Fabian Otte and Claudio Taffarel. The latter has worked with Alisson astatine some nine and planetary for respective years and volition proceed arsenic portion of Carlo Ancelotti’s Brazil staff.
In fact, Slot’s backroom squad has changed drastically successful conscionable implicit a twelvemonth since Jurgen Klopp’s exit. Aaron Briggs joined Liverpool arsenic an idiosyncratic improvement manager past year, on with Ruben Peeters arsenic pb carnal show coach.
Lead spot and conditioning coach, Chris Black, besides joined the Reds successful 2024.
Other members from the Klopp epoch remain, specified arsenic nine doc Jonathan Power, caput of physiotherapy, Lee Nobles, Head of the First Team Physical Performance department, Dr Conall Murtagh, and rehabilitation fittingness coach, Dr David Rydings.
In total, 21 members of unit are listed connected club’s website arsenic members of Slot’s backroom team, they include: Chris Morgan (head of show carnal therapy), Amit Pannu (first-team doctor), Robin Sadler (first-team physiotherapist), Paul Small (masseur), Lee Radcliffe (kit operations manager), Brendan McIlduff (kit co-ordinator), Joe Lewis (rehab physio), Clare Farrell (lead show nutritionist), Yinka Ademuyiwa (kit assistant), Michelle Hudson (masseur), and Lynsey Ahmed (health attraction assistant)
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