It's a neat description and an accurate one, too.
Vitor Matos: Liverpool FC’s ‘connector’.
Pepijn Lijnders came up with the term while also labelling his successor as the club’s elite development coach ‘our best signing of the season’.
It will become clear that Lijnders’ admiration is very much reciprocated; that Matos considers the Reds assistant manager to be much more than just a colleague of his past and present.
But first, can the Portuguese paint us a more detailed picture of what exactly his job entails?
“My biggest goal is to create development.