EVERY off-field move in 2024

Liverpool are making a number of off-field moves in 2024. Here’s everything you need to know.

Jurgen Klopp isn’t the only Liverpool exit in 2024. The Reds will see a number of people leave their roles this year, with more arriving to fill them.

We’ve tried to collect them all here – but it’s not easy. More key names technical he is not joining Liverpool but FSG to oversee their football operations.

So we did our best to explain everything.

Here are Liverpool’s ins and outs off the pitch for 2024.

Leaving Liverpool

Jurgen Klopp – Manager

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The most notable move of all. Jurgen Klopp leaves Liverpool as one of their greatest ever managers and the one who ultimately took them back to the top of the pile in England.

A true club legend, his eight-and-a-half-year spell is sadly coming to an end.

Pep Lijnders – Assistant manager

Pep Lijndesr is a highly rated manager at Liverpool and there is even talk of the Reds already hoping for a return to the line. For now, though, the Dutchman is off to start his own managerial career.

Peter Krawietz – Assistant Manager

Peter Krawietz has worked with Klopp for a long time. He started in football with Mainz, where Klopp was a player and later manager. He followed him to Borussia Dortmund and Liverpool, and now he will follow him out the Anfield exit door.

Vitor Matos – Assistant manager

Liverpool signed Vitor Matos in 2019 to fill the void left by Pep Lijnders, who had left to try management (he would later return, of course). However, he quickly became a key part of the coaching staff and developed a fantastic reputation at the club. He is now leaving with the rest of the first team coaches.

John Achterberg – Goalkeeping coach

John Achterberg has been at Liverpool for 15 years, initially as a youth coach. Kenny Dalglish named him in a first-team role – one he has kept ever since. Since then he has been in charge of the goalkeeper at the club and it was he who pushed for the signing of Alisson Becker in 2018. Liverpool announced at the beginning of May that he would be leaving.

Andreas Kornmayer – Head of Fitness and Conditioning

One of Klopp’s first key signings, Kornmayer worked against him with Bayern Munich before joining Liverpool. He moved to Anfield in 2016 as head of fitness and conditioning – a role he has held ever since. However, This Is Anfield’s David Lynch reports that he will leave the club this summer.

He left Liverpool

Jorg Schmadtke – sports director

Julian Ward’s surprise departure in 2023 has prompted Liverpool to find Jorg Schamdtke to fill the void as sporting director. However, it was only meant to be a temporary role and he left at the end of the January 2024 transfer window.

Joining Liverpool

Richard Hughes – sporting director

Liverpool sporting director Richard Hughes

Liverpool’s main confirmed hire this year is Richard Hughes, who arrives as sporting director from Bournemouth. Technically, he doesn’t take up the job until June, however he almost certainly has permission from the Cherries to work in some capacity.

David Woofine – Assistant Sports Director

David Woodfine was previously head of loan management at Liverpool but left in 2023. He is now back, albeit in a much bigger role as assistant to Richard Hughes.

Mark Burchill – Scout

Mark Burchill currently works as chief scout for Bournemouth but will join Liverpool alongside Hughes this summer.

Craig McKee – Scout

Craig McKee is a scout from Bournemouth who will join Liverpool this summer.

Joining the FSG

Michael Edwards – CEO of Football

FSG CEO of Football Michael Edwards, pictured in 2018 while working as Liverpool’s sporting director.

Michael Edwards, Liverpool’s famous former sporting director, has returned this year by joining FSG as head of football operations. It means he doesn’t really work with the Reds and will instead oversee their multi-club project.

Julian Ward – Technical Director

Julian Ward was Edwards’ successor as sporting director at Liverpool. He left after just one year, but is now back in full swing – but with FSG as technical director. He will be involved with the Reds but will primarily oversee player development. In other words, more of an academy role at Liverpool and a more general development role in FSG’s planned expansion with other clubs.

Pedro Marques – Director of Football Development

Pedro Marques joins FSG as Director of Football Development. It’s a role that will see him based on Merseyside, but he will play a key role in the multi-club project above all else. He arrives from Benfica where he works as technical director and before that Marques was at City Football Group.