A strategic objective of Real Madrid The white club has been shot for next season. Is about Michael Edwards, the sports director of the Liverpool since 2015 and considered one of the world’s great specialists in the transfer market. The red club has made it official that the executive will not renew his contract, which expires in June 2022, and his name had sounded loud a few weeks ago to reinforce the technical secretariat of the Madrid, where June Calafat is the strong and trustworthy man of Florentino Pérez and the CEO, Jose Angel Sanchez.
Edwards is the shadow architect of the construction of the project led by Jürgen Klopp and that has returned Liverpool to the European and English top, when the team achieved the long-awaited Premier in 2020 after thirty years of drought. Under the command of the sports director came figures of the stature of Van Dijk, Mohamed Salah, Sadio Mané, Firmino, Fabinho or Alisson among others. It also achieved juicy sales such as those of Coutinho al Barcelona, Jordan Ibe o Solanke.
Liverpool have confirmed that Edwards’ place on the club’s sports organization chart will be occupied by his former right-hand man, Julian Ward, which from the summer will assume the sports management.
The name of Michael Edwards has been linked in recent hours with Newcastle, which is beginning to build its pharaonic project after the entry of the multimillion-dollar investment fund from Saudi Arabia a few weeks ago. The coach of the Urracas, Eddie Howe, assured a few minutes ago that he has no evidence that the executive will arrive soon. “As far as I know, he will not come. I know absolutely nothing about his future. I have a lot of respect for what he does and for what he has done for Liverpool,” said the Newcastle manager.
Various media close to Madrid deny that there is interest in Edwards, but there is no doubt that he is one of the most coveted pieces to reinforce the main technical secretariats of the continent.
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