Richard Hughes and Michael Edwards: Dream Team Time

Add a little bit of Xabi Alonso and we'll be sorted

While Michael Edwards will not work directly for Liverpool, he will oversee the club’s sporting operation for FSG; and his appointment of Richard Hughes – long-time ally – makes sense.

Hughes can bring the Liverpool approach, as seen with Edwards and then Julian Ward, that is low-key and highly effective. Synchronicity is vital. While Liverpool will be in for a different level of player, Hughes understands the Premier League and its market; whilst also knowing the wider European market.

Hughes got stick for signing Dominic Solanke, but I always felt that in time he could be a Liverpool buyback, as I said at the time; big young strikers often take longer to mature, like big young centre-backs. Solanke has got stronger and faster with age, from the kid who was 19/20 at Liverpool.

Having just written an article on the doublespeak of the PGMOL (link below), I wasn’t going to write anything else, but naturally the club releases major news as soon as I log off!

(I now think the phrase “there’s a coming together” would be used by the PGMOL to describe a car with a drunk driver doing 130mph hitting the central reservation of the M1, as if the reservation was equally to blame.)

Anyway, back to Hughes.

It puts an end to the uncertainty, and in a short space of time Liverpool have gone from no Directors of Football to two of the best, one working for the other.

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