Liverpool managing director Billy Hogan has revealed that the club’s recruitment in recent years is the key to their phenomenal success this season.
The Reds are in the midst of pursuing a Premier League and Champions League double, and Hogan believes the work done by manager Jurgen Klopp and transfer guru Michael Edwards has been key.
“The team is a much different team from a player perspective, and Jurgen and his team, and how we’ve operated as an organisation is different,” he said, as per the Liverpool Echo. “Thinking about the investment that needed to be made in the stadium, which we’ve completed with the Main Stand being redeveloped, the commercial side and investing in the team. Quite a bit has changed.
“It’s been a strategy over the course of nine years, really led on the football side by Jurgen and Michael Edwards and Mike Gordon. As it relates to recruitment they’ve done an incredible job and, obviously, from a coaching perspective the team is performing really well.”
OPINION
When you consider the recruitment drive Liverpool have been on over the last few years it is truly staggering. The calibre of player they have recruited is absolutely top drawer. You’ve had the likes of Virgil van Dijk, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Andrew Robertson, Alisson, Fabinho and Naby Keita. These are all players who have made a huge impact at Anfield, or in Keita’s case are just beginning to. When you look at those signings, too, you can’t really say that the club overspent on any of them. £75million was a lot of money for Van Dijk at the time, but you’d be hard pressed to find anyone who wouldn’t consider it a bargain now. The same goes for Alisson and, particularly, Robertson. Fabinho and Keita have shown signs that they are more than worth their transfer fees, while Oxlade-Chamberlain has been greatly missed over the past year. Hogan is right, the club’s recruitment is the biggest reason behind their pursuit of the double.
