Michael Edwards to step down

[Moctezuma]

This lad isn't thick, he knows that minus Klopp the work his team do is going to be seriously effected. I would imagine he's probably trying to line up a big contract with golden handshake elsewhere.

[Dr Nowt]

4 minutes ago, Moctezuma said:

This lad isn't thick, he knows that minus Klopp the work his team do is going to be seriously effected. I would imagine he's probably trying to line up a big contract with golden handshake elsewhere.

Mickey Edwards may actually be as shrewd as the Echo have been claiming.

[TD_LFC]

These shit takes just keep on rolling.

[m0e]

He's got to be fucked off to be leaking the news 24 hours before the deadline ends.

[Grinch]

Seriously, who the fuck cares?  He’s nothing without Klopp.

[Daisy]

He's definitely jumping ship before his reputation gets mullered.

[Barrington Womble]

20 minutes ago, Daisy said:

He's definitely jumping ship before his reputation gets mullered.

I don't know about that. His reputation will be just fine, because he pretty much runs his own PR department telling everyone how great he is through the no mark journalists around the club. 

[Anubis]

1 hour ago, Bobby Hundreds said:

It's top draw trolling from the club last day or so of the window not only are we not signing anybody were going to end the window in profit and fuck off the person who does the signings.

 

No more person who does transfers = no more transfers. 4D chess…

 

 

 

“Master Edwards is leaving. We expect you all to be ready for the first team in two years.”

[Trumo]

1 hour ago, Daisy said:

He's definitely jumping ship before his reputation gets mullered.

 

[Dr Nowt]

Wonder how much City have offered him?

[Mark M]

19 minutes ago, Justice Negs said:

Wonder how much City have offered him?

Probably just the opertunity to sign players

[Bobby Hundreds]

At least Origi never leaks about leaving and a new deal to the papers. 

[3 Stacks]

Seems like he was a competent guy, but he was internally promoted and seems like so will the next guy. As long as Klopp and the new one get along, show will go on.

 

If he goes are we losing this revolutionary, irreplaceable difference-maker? I'll say probably not.

[Bobby Hundreds]

Maybe he's going to lay the groundwork for Klopp at his next club. Yeah thats definitely it.

 

I reckon he's just after a new deal.

[polymerpunkah]

Why didn't they sell him this summer, and use the proceeds to buy another forward?

 

[Moo]

3 hours ago, Barrington Womble said:

I don't know about that. His reputation will be just fine, because he pretty much runs his own PR department telling everyone how great he is through the no mark journalists around the club. 

Well I'm not sure about that considering his genius was only recognised once Klopp got his feet under the table, funny that.

[Aventus]

Only one man can save us now

[Moo]

I think whatever way you slice this, if Edwards is a good as the club have been telling us for years, then this is bad news and it would be a natural reaction to wonder if all is not right at the club.

[TD_LFC]

1 minute ago, Moo said:

I think whatever way you slice this, if Edwards is a good as the club have been telling us for years, then this is bad news and it would be a natural reaction to wonder if all is not right at the club.

Would it, he's not leaving tomorrow and, to date, there's no stories about us losing the entire analytics team as well. If all was not right and that's why he was leaving why would he see out his contract?

 

He's obviously a skilled negotiator and that's where his talents lie but he's not the sole person in charge of transfers at the club, he's the figurehead of the recruitment team.

 

All this trouble at the top stuff seems to be wishful think on some peoples behalf. 

[Moo]

2 minutes ago, TD_LFC said:

Would it, he's not leaving tomorrow and, to date, there's no stories about us losing the entire analytics team as well. If all was not right and that's why he was leaving why would he see out his contract?

 

He's obviously a skilled negotiator and that's where his talents lie but he's not the sole person in charge of transfers at the club, he's the figurehead of the recruitment team.

 

All this trouble at the top stuff seems to be wishful think on some peoples behalf. 

It wouldn't be a news story at all if it wasn't going to raise some eyebrows. It raises eyebrows because it's a big surprise, it's a big surprise because we've been told how integral he is and how it's all been going like clockwork.  It's a natural reaction, not wishful thinking, to wonder if something is not working as well as before (note, I never said it's completely broken down so much so that he can't stand to be at the club another day)

It's cloud-cuckoo clock land to always assume everything is hunky dory.

[3 Stacks]

2 minutes ago, Moo said:

It wouldn't be a news story at all if it wasn't going to raise some eyebrows. It raises eyebrows because it's a big surprise, it's a big surprise because we've been told how integral he is and how it's all been going like clockwork.  It's a natural reaction, not wishful thinking, to wonder if something is not working as well as before (note, I never said it's completely broken down so much so that he can't stand to be at the club another day)

It's cloud-cuckoo clock land to always assume everything is hunky dory.

The interesting piece of news is that his contract is running down. No one knew that. He's become an internet darling in the last few years and he's simply leveraging that for more money, either here or somewhere else, as anyone else would do in that situation. 

[TD_LFC]

Just now, 3 Stacks said:

The interesting piece of news is that his contract is running down. No one knew that. He's become an internet darling in the last few years and he's simply leveraging that for more money, either here or somewhere else, as anyone else would do in that situation. 

And the club already had an element of succession planning in place by promoting Julian Ward in 2020, all reports to date are that the decision is yet to be decided with 'amicable' discussions on going.

 

 

[Bobby Hundreds]

If anything he's blocking wards progression. We need to show there are clear paths to the top.

[Moo]

I mean, if you think a high profile member of the LFC backroom staff trying to engineer a better contract through the media (and I'm not saying that's the case) would not be erm "unusual" behaviour then I don't know what to say.

[TD_LFC]

I've not got the energy to worry about something that, by your own admission, you don't know is actually happening.

 

I've certainly not got the energy to conjure some great boardroom drama off the back of that.