Liverpool have appointed Aaron Briggs as their first-team particular person growth coach, with Arne Slot explaining what the ex-Man Metropolis coach’s position will cowl.
Briggs, 37, was introduced as the most recent new addition to Slot’s backroom employees final week, becoming a member of after his earlier position as assistant coach at Wolfsburg resulted in March.
The Englishman arrives having constructed up a powerful CV, which began with a job as efficiency analyst at Blackpool in 2007.
His portfolio is actually diversified, and Slot has defined the duties concerned in Briggs’ new job title at Liverpool, as he spoke to LFCTV.
“I don’t know the precise proper phrase to make use of in English, however he’s most significantly discovering the bridge between the youth academy and the primary workforce,” the pinnacle coach defined.
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“Doing loads of one-on-one conferences with the gamers as properly and naturally serving to us throughout the coaching classes.
“So he’s only a member of our employees, perhaps a bit extra centered on the gamers who’re in between the U21s and the primary workforce.
“However he has an analyst background in addition to being an assistant coach, so we’re going to make use of him in each division.”
After spells with Blackpool and Preston, Briggs made the bounce to Man Metropolis in 2011, holding 5 completely different evaluation roles over 9 years and ultimately turning into senior first-team efficiency analyst.
Two years teaching at Monaco adopted earlier than becoming a member of Niko Kovac’s employees at Wolfsburg as assistant coach.
Changing Matos
In idea, his position at Liverpool shall be changing that of Vitor Matos, the Portuguese who himself took over from Pepijn Lijnders as elite growth coach.
Matos and earlier than him Lijnders served as, in Slot’s phrases, the bridge between the academy and the primary workforce, which proved vastly profitable throughout Jurgen Klopp‘s reign.
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The pair at the moment are working collectively at Crimson Bull Salzburg, and encouragingly the membership haven’t ignored the necessity to exchange Matos given the significance of Liverpool’s academy in supplying the senior squad.
Briggs has already been hands-on in pre-season classes on the AXA Coaching Centre, together with his teaching background – holding a UEFA Professional Licence – permitting him to steer when required.
However his expertise as an analyst can be attention-grabbing, with Liverpool dropping considered one of their key movers in that respect when Peter Krawietz additionally left this summer time.
It’s possible, then, that Briggs will function in a hybrid position, which is frequent throughout the new-look backroom employees in place beneath Slot.
