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!
Entertainment Over Integrity: The Broadcasters and PGMOL Don’t Care About Fair Play, Just the Product
This, above, according to the PGMOL, including the VAR on duty, is just two players coming into contact. Two players going in high, and two players coming into contact. Stuart Attwell, the VAR, said: “There’s a coming together. Mac Allister coming in, he turns his body. The ball is high, they both come in high. I don’t think there is enough evidence there for a penalty kick.”
(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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