With the introduction of the brand new Liverpool sporting director, Richard Hughes, Robbie Fowler has defined how he can successfully work with the following supervisor.
On the high of Hughes’ record shall be to rent a successor to Jurgen Klopp. With Michael Edwards additionally concerned within the appointment, the pair might want to decide somebody they’ll work with, however not a yes-man, says Fowler.
The legendary striker instructed This Is Anfield: “You don’t go into soccer desirous to encompass yourselves with yes-men.
“You need individuals to query you, you need individuals to ask questions and also you wish to query them.
“However, it’s received to be a two-way avenue, and quite a lot of the questions I’m form of getting requested now’s ‘can a supervisor work with a sporting director?’.
“They completely can, they actually can, however there’s additionally received to be the query the opposite manner spherical, ‘can the sporting director work with the supervisor?’.”
Fowler speaks from expertise having endured a rocky relationship with Carlos Anton, the technical director at his final membership, Al-Qadsiah.
“Not sufficient will get mentioned about whether or not a sporting director can work with the supervisor,” Fowler instructed This Is Anfield‘s David Lynch in February.
“I all the time felt that he wasn’t working with me; it turned out he had his personal plans and simply wished to deliver his personal individuals in.”
Now, Fowler provides: “You’ve received to be combating for a similar final result, and so long as everybody’s engaged on that very same sheet of clean paper, then it turns into so much simpler, versus should you’re making an attempt to do one thing and perhaps somebody’s making an attempt to cease that.
“It turns into a little bit of a multitude and a little bit of a disjointed event, everybody’s received to sing from the identical hymn sheet.”
Liverpool’s subsequent supervisor shall be appearing beneath a restructured hierarchy on the membership, with Edwards now working as CEO of Soccer for FSG and assuming a task above sporting director Hughes.
The brand new coach will even need to work carefully with the Reds’ scouting group, who’re including Bournemouth‘s chief scout Mark Birchall and scouting co-ordinator Craig McKee, in accordance with BBC Sport.
Fortunately, Liverpool don’t have to look too far for brand spanking new expertise on the pitch. A wave of more-than-capable children are coming by way of the Reds’ academy, like Fowler did within the early Nineteen Nineties.
The striker made his Liverpool debut at 18 and went on to attain 183 objectives in 369 appearances.
Talking in regards to the present crop of younger gamers, Fowler mentioned: “In case you’re adequate, you’re sufficiently old. I feel that’s confirmed in not solely myself, however in a number of gamers.
“However look, who’re we to say something about Jurgen?
“Jurgen’s most likely the very best supervisor on the earth at the moment and he’s most likely received an even bigger squad to play with than what squads have had prior to now.
“I feel that perhaps performs an element however, you realize, we’re speaking about the very best supervisor on the earth, we all know that.
“He’s intelligent and astute when it comes to how he needs his group to play, how he needs his squad to play.
“Bringing within the younger youngsters at occasions when, at occasions, we’ve most likely wanted them, however nonetheless managed to regulate the minutes and I feel that claims every part about him, not solely as a supervisor but additionally as an individual.
“I feel he realises the risks that perhaps some gamers can get into later of their profession.”
