Former Liverpool assistant Lijnders joins Man City

They helped Jurgen Klopp mastermind Liverpool's Champions League and Premier League triumphs and spell toe-to-toe with Pep Guardiola's Manchester City successful 1 of the Premier League's large rivalries.

Now aft finishing without a trophy for the archetypal clip since 2017, Guardiola has recruited Pepijn Lijnders and James French to his backroom squad arsenic portion of a rebuild astatine Etihad Stadium.

Lijnders, who was Klopp's fig 2 for the 2nd fractional of his palmy spell astatine Liverpool, has been confirmed arsenic Guardiola's caller adjunct manager.

French, who was a cardinal subordinate of Klopp's backroom unit arsenic absorption analyst, has been appointed City's set-piece coach.

Their appointments travel the departures of 3 cardinal coaches astatine the extremity of past play - including Guardiola's first-team assistants Juanma Lillo and Inigo Dominguez.

Lijnders, 42, near Liverpool astatine the aforesaid clip arsenic Klopp astatine the extremity of the 2023-24 season.

The Dutchman took implicit arsenic manager of Red Bull Salzburg successful May 2024 but departed the Austrian nine wrong 7 months aft lone 29 games successful charge.

French was a show expert with the Football Association of Wales earlier joining Liverpool successful July 2012.

Lijnders initially arrived astatine Anfield nether erstwhile brag Brendan Rodgers successful 2014 but near successful 2018 to negociate Dutch broadside NEC successful the Eredivisie.

He was dismissed astatine the extremity of that play though, and became Klopp's adjunct successful 2019 successful the aftermath of Zeljko Buvac's departure.

As good arsenic lifting the Premier League Champions League with the Reds, helium besides won the FA Cup, 2 League Cups, the Fifa Club World Cup, the Uefa Super Cup and the Community Shield.

City's manager of shot Hugo Viana said some Lijnders and French's "talent, application, enactment ethic and all-round committedness are wholly aligned with the values that underpin however Pep wants shot to beryllium played".