Liverpool appoint former Manchester City analyst Aaron Briggs as elite development coach

Liverpool have added former Manchester City analyst and coach Aaron Briggs to Arne Slot’s backroom staff.

The 37-year-old is the club’s new elite development coach — filling the role vacated by Vitor Matos at the end of last season.

Briggs, who will be the key link between the academy and first team set-up, has been tracked by a number of Premier League clubs this summer.

He was an assistant coach at German club Wolfsburg under Niko Kovac before their departure from the club in March.

Briggs worked at Monaco as a tactical analysis coach, assistant coach and then head of football methodology between 2020 and 2022.

He also spent nine years at Manchester City, where he rose from under-18 performance analyst to senior first-team performance analyst, having previously been on staff at Blackpool and Preston North End.

Briggs is the fourth addition to Slot’s staff, following Spike Hulshoff (assistant coach), Ruben Peeters (head physical performance coach) and Fabian Otte (goalkeeping coach).

Liverpool are still in the process of recruiting a first team coach. Former Everton and Holland defender Johnny Heitinga is one of the names currently being discussed. Heitinga was part of David Moyes’ staff at West Ham but left the London club when the Scot’s reign ended in May.

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