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Steve McManaman has urged FSG to bring former sporting director Michael Edwards back to the club.
Edwards left the Reds in the summer of 2022 following a successful 11-year stint at the club, before later setting up his own data consultancy company
With Liverpool in need of a new sporting director following Jorge Schmadtke’s exit at the end of January, FSG are trying to lure Edwards back to the club in a more senior role.
Mike Gordon, the FSG president, approached Edwards after Klopp's decision to stand down in the summer was made public
McManaman knows Edwards well and actually lives near the 44-year-old. And he’s revealed that he recently spoke to the former Reds sporting director about a possible Anfield return
Mcmanaman
"They should try and bring Michael back! Of course, they should,”
“Funnily enough, I spoke to him the other day about it as well because he lives by me and I see him regularly.
“I don’t know in what capacity they would want to bring him back. I don’t know. I think Michael has moved on from just being a sporting director.
"He hasn’t said that to me personally, but he couldn’t just go back to the same role that he was doing for a long time."
“I think he’d need more. I don’t know whether he needs a new challenge. In past comments he’s made, it’s always the case that he needs a new challenge."
“The same with Julian Ward as well. I know Jules very well. It would be great if they could come back and recreate what they had done previously, of course it would be."
“But I don’t know what’s going on behind the scenes, if they have spoken to them, if they have offered them various things. I don’t entirely know.
“But Michael and Jules did an incredible job when they were at Liverpool. They’re friends of mine so I wouldn’t say anything bad about them!”
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