Liverpool are but to formally appoint a specialist set-piece coach after posting a job advert over the summer season, and it transpires that they missed their No. 1 goal.
Again in Could, it emerged that Liverpool have been in search of 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 position.
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 position he would take up on Arne Slot‘s workers, however it might actually have concerned main set-pieces.
Talking to Algemeen Dagblad final month, the Liverpool head coach highlighted the position of his former colleague.
“Etienne Reijnen continues to be at Feyenoord and I lately learn that Brian Priske (Slot’s successor) was stuffed with reward for him,” Slot stated.
“The set-pieces are a power at Feyenoord and Reijnen nonetheless takes care of them.”
Feyenoord have scored the fourth-most set-piece targets to this point 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 because of work allow points, with the 37-year-old as an alternative remaining in his place as analyst and technical advisor for the Dutch membership, however Liverpool might revive their curiosity sooner or later.
That might clarify their choice to park any seek for a specialist and depend on Briggs to fill the position in the meanwhile.
Briggs’ duties inside Slot’s workers are wide-ranging, together with main coaching classes and bridging the primary group and academy squads, and his time is understandably divided.
That makes it doubtless 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 situation in buying a piece allow for Slot and assist workers equivalent to Sipke Hulshoff, Ruben Peeters and Roderick van der Ham, who all moved to Anfield from Feyenoord.
