PEP Lijnders in Man City: The former Liverpool assistant joins the staff of Pep Guardiola coaches | Football news
Former Liverpool assistant coach Pep Lijnders joined Manchester City coaches, becoming the new assistant from Pep Guardiola.
City simultaneously announced the appointment of James French, who also worked at Liverpool, as a set of set.
The pair replaces Juanma Lillo, Inigo Dominguez and Carlos Vicens, the former assistants of Guardiola who left the club at the end of last season.
Ljinders joins Guardiola coaches staff, who were part of the background team of Jurgen Klopp and Brendan Rodgers in Anfield through two distinct spells.
The 42 -year -old man initially joined Liverpool in 2014 under Rodgers, before becoming the Klopp assistant in 2015 while German began nine years transformers in charge of the current Premier League champions.
The Dutch coach then briefly left Anfield to make a passage as a chief coach of NEC in Eredivisie in 2018. However, after being dismissed by NEC at the end of the 2017/18 season, the Ljinders returned to Liverpool.
Ljinders left the Reds with Klopp at the end of the 2023/24 season and was recently in charge of Red Bull Salzburg – belonging to Red Bull Gmbh for whom Klopp works for the football chief – but he left Austrian in December 2024.
French, who spent more than a decade in Liverpool as an opposition analyst after joining in 2012, has experience with the Galloise FA as well as spending time in Swansea.
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