This is the Blood Red Podcast from the Liverpool Echo, giving you the inside track on all the big talking points from Anfield.

Welcome everyone to the Liverpool.com podcast. I'm your your host able comerford and I'm joined as usual by the

Liverpool dot com editor Matt Addison and in today's episode we'll be discussing the sporting

director landscape at Liverpool and the reason we're doing this is because

there's been some reports from Germany about interest in a potential new

candidate for the role at Anfield and also an update from the athletic on what's

going on on the

Liverpool side of things and we'll get into those as we go on but just to

start off with Matt I want to talk about the sport and director situation more

generally we know that Yorkshire marker is currently serving a one-year deal at

Liverpool following Julian Ward's unexpected exit at the end of last season.

Do you think that it's fair to say if this situation was happening at the other club maybe

Man United or something like that we look at it and say it's actually a bit you know of a

marker of dysfunction really because Liverpool in the past have always felt like they were

set up for the long term with the structure that they had.

Now it feels a little bit more like kind of just a stop gap really.

Yeah, I think that would probably be fair.

I think you've got a lot more credit in the bank with Liverpool. I think there's

a bit more of a structure behind the scenes. We know that the way that they've set up their

transfer committee, for want of a better word, and the way that they kind of use the system and the people that they've got there.

I know there's been a lot of change, but they've got that kind of structure that people work within,

which I think is certainly at Manchester United, maybe not quite as clear,

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