Liverpool are hoping to wrap up a deal for outgoing Bournemouth transfer chief Richard Hughes to take over as sporting director in the next weeks, with the 44-year-old expected to head up the Reds’ football operations under Michael Edwards.
The Merseyside club held positive talks with former sporting director Edwards in Boston last weekend, with a view for him to return to the club in a more senior and wider role.
Edwards, highly lauded as an integral figure of Liverpool’s glory years under Jurgen Klopp, originally turned down an approach to return to the club after setting up an analytics firm with the club’s former head of research Ian Graham.