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The season is over and our Liverpool is set to make sort of a rebuilding, given that Reds were not able to qualify for next season’s Champions League. With that in mind, the club has announced the very first changes for the next campaign.

Through a press release, the board has confirmed that Julian Ward will leave the club after more than ten years  at the club, where he became the sporting director, in which he brought Liverpool to the top level in both Premier League and European competitions.

Ward arrived to the club back in October 2012 as part of the recruitment and scouting team. Three years later he became the first loan pathways and football partnerships manager. Then he moved up to assistant sporting director and finally he took the senior role. “We must bid a fond farewell to Julian Ward, who has served us with unstinting diligence, fortitude and energy in a number of roles, the most recent one being sporting director”, Fenway Sports Group President Mike Gordon said.

With the departure of Ward, Liverpool is now looking to renew the sporting director role, in order to achieve the goals in the years to come, in which the board and the coaching staff expects to compete at the highest level once more.

Liverpool’s new sporting director

Liverpool's new sporting director is now the 53 year-old Jorg Schmadtke, who has been in similar positions at Bundesliga, being Wolfsburg his last job (he left at the beginning of 2023). “He will bring a wealth of knowledge and experience into a role in which such qualities can only be beneficial both to him and us”, Gordon added. Schamdtke, who has experience in similar roles at Cologne, Hannover an Alemannia Aachen, will take over as Liverpool’s sporting director from Julian Ward on June 1.