Pen pics of Liverpool's backroom staff.
Pen pics of Liverpool's backroom staff.
Liverpool’s Assistant Goalkeeper Coach Jack Robinson has left the club after six years, along with six other of Jurgen Klopp’s assistants.
Liverpool are advertising for their first ever specialist Set Piece Coach. Although Jurgen Klopp did use Thomas Gronnemark as a consultant throw-in coach for spells during his almost nine years at Anfield?, he didn't employ a set-piece specialist, preferring his existing staff to take care of them.
Pepijn Lijnders has been appointed Head Coach of Austrian side Red Bull Salzburg and will take Vitor Matos with him from Liverpool as Assistant.
Former Liverpool Sporting Director Julian Ward is returning to the club as Technical Director for owners Fenway Sports Group (FSG). Ward stepped down as Sporting Director last summer and has taken a break from football for the last year.
Teamworks will be the Headline Sponsor of this year's TGG Live Conference at St George's Park. Our annual two-day event is returning on September 9 & 10 to shine a light on the best of the backroom in football and beyond.
Liverpool Goalkeeping Coach John Achterberg is leaving the club at the end of the season after 15 years.
David Woodfine is returning to Liverpool as Assistant Sporting Director - a year after leaving the club.
LIVERPOOL and Google DeepMind have developed a “full AI system” that can “advise coaches on corner kicks.”
RICHARD HUGHES has been appointed as the new Sporting Director of Liverpool after a decade at Bournemouth.
MICHAEL EDWARDS has returned to Liverpool in the new role of CEO of Football. He said: "I will oversee the required reinforcement of football operations, with a number of essential leadership positions needing urgent attention."
LIVERPOOL’S Martin Diggle has been appointed as the new Academy Manager at Leeds United. Diggle has worked for Liverpool for almost five years as their Head of Coach Development, supporting the coaches across their Academy.
IN our Set Piece Masterclass, former Newcastle United First Team Analyst Billy Coulston will help to improve your understanding, preparation and delivery of Set Pieces.
LIVERPOOL Sporting Director Jorg Schmadtke is to leave the club at the end of the January transfer window.
LIVERPOOL assistants Pepijn Lijnders, Peter Krawietz and Vitor Matos are to leave the club at the end of the season along with manager Jürgen Klopp. The German stunned fans this morning by announcing his decision to step down when the 2023/24 campaign comes to a close.
R is a statistics-specific programming language that is excellent for data cleaning, manipulation and visualisations. In our R Masterclass, on Tuesday February 13th, Harsh Krishna will introduce you to R and RStudio (the interface for writing R code) and explain how they can be used with football event data.
FORMER Liverpool Head of Research Dr Ian Graham has said the “holy grail” of analytics is to be able to accurately assess the importance of a manager.
ChatGPT and other Large Language models are changing how we write and read texts. In this Masterclass, Professor David Sumpter explains how to make the most of the new technology when writing scouting reports.
OUR Big Data Webinar is now available on-demand and brings you insights from leading practitioners in football and beyond.
STAFF from more than 100 clubs and federations from around the world - in football and beyond - were among those to gather in Manchester last week for two days of learning and networking at TGG Live.
TEAM Operations and Communications specialists Kairos will showcase their new product Kairos TV at TGG Live in Manchester on October 9th and 10th.
STAFF from dozens of leading clubs and federations will be attending TGG Live in Manchester on October 9th and 10th. This event, which is being held in the iconic Beetham Tower, will offer unparalleled opportunities to learn and network with some of the brightest minds in football and beyond.
FORMER Liverpool Head of Research Ian Graham has launched his own consultancy called Ludonautics, which vows to "help sporting organisations improve their decision-making capabilities."
JORG SCHMADTKE has said he is effectively Jurgen Klopp’s ‘assistant’ in his role as Liverpool’s Sporting Director - and revealed that he will sit down with the club’s hierarchy at the end of the transfer window to discuss his future.
PEP LIJNDERS explains why homegrown players will always remain fundamental to Liverpool, despite the clamour for signings - and outlines the principle behind the weekly 'Talent Group.'
LIVERPOOL have built a new cage football pitch nicknamed the ‘Melwood Arena’ to 'create the street' and improve their attacking play.
WE are delighted to reveal the agenda for our industry-leading TGG Live Conference in Manchester on October 9th and 10th. This two-day event at the iconic Beetham Tower in central Manchester will shine a light on the best of the backroom.
JORG SCHMADTKE has been appointed as Liverpool’s new Sporting Director, succeeding Julian Ward. The German, 59, spent more than four years in the same role with Bundesliga side Wolfsburg before leaving at the start of this year.
LIVERPOOL Loans Manager David Woodfine is leaving the club after almost nine years. He is their latest senior departure, with the exits of Sporting Director Julian Ward and Director of Research Ian Graham having already been announced.
CLUB and Federation experts will give insights into latest trends and best practice at our Youth Development Webinar on June 6th.
JURGEN KLOPP has made important changes to Liverpool's pre-season after learning some key lessons from last season.
ON October 9&10, Training Ground Guru is holding its biggest and best event, with its biggest and best line-up of speakers!
IN October we'll be holding our biggest ever event. The TGG Live Conference, at the iconic Beetham Tower in central Manchester, spans two days and will be a window into the world of high performance in professional football, featuring dozens of expert speakers from leading clubs and federations.
OUR Scouting and Recruitment Webinar is back for a second edition and again provides industry insights from leading experts in the game.
WILL SPEARMAN has been promoted to replace Ian Graham as Director of Research at Liverpool at the end of this season.
LIVERPOOL Under-18s coach Jay Spearing has revealed he was rushed to hospital on Christmas Eve with a life-threatening condition.
LEARN how xG - the most important machine learning model in football - works during our follow-along Masterclass with Professor David Sumpter on Tuesday January 24th.
JULIAN WARD is to step down as Liverpool’s Sporting Director at the end of the season after one year in post.
LIVERPOOL’S Director of Research, Ian Graham, has resigned from his role and will leave Anfield after more than a decade. The Welshman joined Liverpool in July 2012 and became a key figure at the club, building the leading data science department in the Premier League and perhaps even in Europe.
MIKE GORDON, the conduit between Liverpool and owners Fenway Sports Group (FSG), is stepping back from his role with the club and “handing the baton” to CEO Billy Hogan.
TGG's Big Data event is back for its fourth edition and will once again give top insights into how leading football clubs and federations are using data science.
EDD WEBSTER is a data scientist for LEGO who previously worked for Manchester City and West Ham. On October 25th, he will be hosting an SQL Masterclass for TGG. Here is some background on SQL and what the Masterclass will involve.
COACHES from the four home nations as well as from Belgium, Holland, Germany, Portugal and the United States came together at TGG’s Youth Development Conference for a day of learning and sharing ideas.
DATA is valuable and SQL makes navigating it a lot easier. Our SQL for Data Analysis Masterclass will provide an introduction to accessing and manipulating datasets in a football context.
LIVERPOOL Academy Director Alex Inglethorpe has signed a new long-term contract with the club after almost a decade’s service.
ANDREAS SCHLUMBERGER has been promoted to Head of Medicine and Fitness by Liverpool, while Frigyes Vanden Auweele has joined the club in the new position of Head of Osteopathy.
ON September 20th, TGG will be holding its first in-person event for three years. The Youth Development Conference will feature top speakers giving insights into the latest innovations and best practice in Academies - from both England and beyond.
JAY SPEARING is returning to Liverpool after nine years to become a player-coach with their Academy.
SOCIAL media is rife with conspiracy theories about the prevalence of asthma within Liverpool's squad and their use of inhalers. We decided to do a fact check about them with the country's leading expert on asthma in elite sport.
JURGEN KLOPP has paid tribute to his ‘invaluable’ assistants Pepijn Lijnders and Peter Krawietz after they joined him in signing two-year contract extensions at Liverpool to 2026.
HOW do you ensure each individual develops within your team environment? This is a big focus for clubs - and for this webinar.
OUR Python Match Analysis Masterclass is a follow-along interactive session that takes you through the match analysis process, from processing a real match JSON file through to data visualisation and communication.
Our Power BI Masterclass, delivered by Southampton FC Performance Data Analyst Harriet Eastham, helps you to connect multiple data sources to generate interactive insights.
OUR Scouting and Recruitment webinar features insights from leading clubs and professionals.
OUR Youth Development event, which delivered insights from leading Academies, is now available on-demand.
BRAZILIAN World Cup winner Claudio Taffarel is joining Liverpool’s backroom staff as they look to build their “own philosophy in goalkeeping”.
JULIAN WARD is to replace Michael Edwards as Liverpool’s Sporting Director at the end of the season.
TGG's Big Data 2021 Webinar, shedding light on how top individuals and organisations are using data science in football, is now available on-demand.
OUR Python Masterclass, which gives an introduction to the football capabilities of one of the world's most popular programming languages, is now available on-demand.
OUR Individual Development Coaching Webinar, which gave in-depth insights into the approach of top clubs and federations in this crucial area of the game, is now available to watch on-demand.
PLAYERS from Liverpool and Manchester City’s Academy and women’s teams are to wear special mouthguards during training as part of a landmark study into head injuries in football.
RECOVERY is more important now than ever, because unprecedented fixture congestion is leaving so little time between matches. In this event, expert practitioners from elite clubs will be telling you how they monitor recovery and about the methods and tools they use to promote it.
A PLAYER'S position only tells us so much about them - as a comparison of Roberto Firmino and Robert Lewandowski shows. Paul Power of Stats Perform explains how we can carry out some more sophisticated analysis of a player.
TELESTRATION elevates the storytelling power of video, which is why TGG have teamed up with Tracab to bring you a Coach Paint Masterclass delivered by Benfica U23 assistant manager João Nuno Fonseca.
LIVERPOOL legend and Sky Sports pundit Jamie Carragher tells TGG how he analyses matches and aims to take fans inside the world of the manager's post-match debrief.
JURGEN KLOPP says Liverpool have hired the “number one in Germany” in new Head of Recovery and Performance Andreas Schlumberger.
LIVERPOOL have appointed Dr Andreas Schlumberger as their new Head of Recovery and Performance.
JULIAN WARD has been promoted from Loans Manager to Assistant Sporting Director by Liverpool.
OUR Big Data event, which examines how top teams are using data science, is back for a second year.
MARK LEYLAND has been promoted to Head of Post-Match and Elite Player Analysis by Liverpool following the departure of Harrison Kingston to Moroccan Football Federation earlier this month.
LIVERPOOL’S Head of Post-Match Analysis, Harrison Kingston, has left the club after eight years to join the Moroccan Football Federation.
LIVERPOOL will move into their new £50m training centre in Kirkby in mid to late November, the club have announced.
JOSE LUIS RODRIGUEZ has left Liverpool after two years, making him the third physio to exit the Premier League champions this year.
MIKE YATES didn't quite make it as a player at Liverpool, but the club's educational support helped him become a key coach in their Academy.
LIVERPOOL Academy Manager Alex Inglethorpe takes TGG inside the club's Kirkby training centre and explains the principles that underpin one of the most successful youth programmes in English football.
PHILIPP JACOBSEN, Liverpool’s Medical Rehabilitation and Performance Manager, is leaving the club after little more than two years.
ENGLAND rugby coach Eddie Jones and England Women’s goalkeeper Karen Bardsley were among the superb speakers at TGG’s The Future Game webinar on Wednesday.
FOR the last two years, Liverpool have been working with Paris tech firm SkillCorner, which is able to turn broadcast footage into valuable data and insights.
FORMER Portsmouth, Middlesbrough and West Ham midfielder Gary O'Neil has taken his first job in coaching as assistant of Liverpool's Under-23s.
ENGLAND rugby coach Eddie Jones will be among the speakers at an online event exploring the future of elite sport post pandemic and beyond.
IN the final instalment of his series on the five key roles for high-performing teams, David Slemen explains why the Non-Executive Director (NED) is so important.
SENIOR PHYSIO Chris Morgan is leaving Arsenal after two years to return to Liverpool.
THERE are things that Liverpool do behind the scenes that are better than anyone else. When put together, they have made the Reds unassailable.
LIVERPOOL Director of Research Ian Graham says that although manager Jürgen Klopp “intuitively understands the numbers”, he does not have "day-to-day or week-to-week" contact with the club's data team.
BARRY LEWTAS has been promoted to Under-23 boss at Liverpool, while Marc Bridge-Wilkinson steps up to take charge of the U18s.
LIVERPOOL performance psychologist Lee Richardson says “acceptance” has become the key word for the club during lockdown.
LIVERPOOL'S Lead Data Scientist, William Spearman, delivers a step-by-step guide on how he builds pitch control models and quantifies the creation of space.
FORMER Liverpool captain Jamie Carragher says the club have lost “respect and goodwill” by becoming the fifth Premier League side to ask for taxpayer money to fund their staff wages.
GÉRARD HOULLIER is the "most underrated" Liverpool manager. according to Jamie Carragher, but he brought the club into the 21st Century and his legacy is still felt to this day,
LIVERPOOL Under-23 coach Neil Critchley has been appointed Head Coach of League One Blackpool on a contract to the end of the 2022/23 season.
LIVERPOOL have hired another physio from rivals Manchester City with Steve Lilley joining the Anfield club next month.
LIVERPOOL physio Richie Partridge is leaving the club in March to work for the Qatar national team.
TGG will be exploring Modern Leadership at our next live event, at Emirates Old Trafford on Thursday April 23rd.
GARY O’DRISCOLL is leaving Arsenal after 11 years to become Head of Medical Services at Liverpool.
TIM WASKETT, one of the unsung heroes from Liverpool's data science team, explains the work they do in the Royal Institute Christmas Lectures.
ANDY MASSEY, described by Liverpool as their ‘master of medicine’, is leaving the club after six and a half years to become the new Director of Medical at Fifa.
PEPIJN LIJNDERS has revealed how counterpressing - the foundation of Liverpool’s playing philosophy - “comes back in every exercise” at their training ground.
LIVERPOOL'S new Elite Development Coach, Vitor Matos, explains what his role involves and how he is a 'connector' between Academy and first team.
LIVERPOOL’S Director of Research, Ian Graham, says the club have developed a metric called ‘goal probability added’ to assess players.
LIVERPOOL have struck a deal with Loughborough University which will see them play some of their Academy matches on campus.
VITOR MATOS, 31, takes up the position previously held by Pepijn Lijnders, who left Liverpool for NEC Nijmegen in January 2018 and returned six months later as assistant manager.
LIVERPOOL chief executive Peter Moore says the club has “merged digital and analogue” to create “the essence of a modern football club”.
A LEADING podiatrist says clubs need to re-think how close artificial grass is placed next to touchlines in their stadiums following an ankle injury suffered by Liverpool's Divock Origi at the weekend.
CHAMPIONS LEAGUE players performed more than twice as many sprints over 30km/hr in 2018/19 compared to the previous season, Uefa’s Technical Report has shown.
DATA SCIENCE is the growth area in football, yet also one of the least understood. At this special event, we will be finding out what the top Premier League and international teams are doing, from the experts who are doing it.
BEFORE leading his side into their second straight Champions League final, manager Jurgen Klopp has been explaining his leadership philosophy.
LIVERPOOL manager Jurgen Klopp has paid tribute to his new-look backroom team and ‘the details that make it all’ ahead of next Saturday’s Champions League final against Tottenham in Madrid.
KRIS VAN DER HAEGEN, the Director of Coach Education for the Belgian Football Association, will head a special TGG conference on youth development in June.
LIVERPOOL assistant Zeljko Buvac has now officially left the club - more than eight months after walking out on the eve of their Champions League semi-final against Roma.
IN his first interview since leaving Liverpool in November 2017, former Head Physio Andy Renshaw reflects on his eight years at the club and explains what he's doing now.
THE new Nations League has dramatically increased playing time for some players, research has shown.
PREMIER LEAGUE footballers Tom Heaton and Ben Mee were among the attendees at TGG's second Cohesive Coaching event in Manchester.
MANCHESTER CITY Head Physio Lee Nobes is leaving the club after 11 years to join rivals Liverpool.
FOLLOWING the success of our first Cohesive Coaching event in June, we decided to put on a sequel.
MATT KONOPINSKI, who has been acting up as Liverpool’s Head Physio since November 2017, is leaving to take up a new job with the Football Association.
LIVERPOOL have appointed Jack Robinson as their new first-team goalkeeper coach to assist John Achterberg.
THE newest member of Liverpool's coaching staff explains his craft.
LIVERPOOL have sacked physio Ruben Pons as they revamp their medical department ahead of the upcoming season.
GERMAN Philipp Jacobsen has been appointed to the new position of medical rehabilitation and performance manager by Liverpool.
PEPIJN LIJNDERS has returned to Liverpool after six months as head coach of NEC Nijmegen in Holland.
LIVERPOOL’s Jordan Milsom has been appointed Head of Performance by Rangers.
FORMER Olympic sprinter Craig Pickering knows what it's like to make a massive mistake in front of a global audience. He offers Liverpool goalkeeper Loris Karius some advice about the road to redemption.
STEVEN GERRARD has been confirmed as the new manager of Rangers after signing a four-year deal with the Glasgow club.
STEVEN GERRARD is set to be announced as Rangers manager this afternoon - and is expected to take members of his current Liverpool Under-18s backroom staff with him to Ibrox.
LIVERPOOL assistant manager Zeljko Buvac has stepped down from his position and his future at the club is uncertain.
LIVERPOOL defender Dejan Lovren says manager Jurgen Klopp demands a front-foot style from his defenders that has risks but even more rewards.
LIVERPOOL loan manager Julian Ward reveals how the club chooses where to send players and why it's so important for their development.
LIVERPOOL Development Coach Pepijn Lijnders - described as ‘unbelievably important’ by manager Jurgen Klopp - is leaving immediately to become head coach of NEC Nijmegen in Holland.
MATT KONOPINSKI has been appointed temporary Head Physio at Liverpool following the departure of Andy Renshaw last month.
JURGEN KLOPP has praised Liverpool’s analysts after Philippe Coutinho’s clever free-kick goal against Brighton.
DEVELOPMENT COACH Pepijn Lijnders says the quality of Liverpool’s Academy players - and the club’s willingness to use them - will give a critical advantage over Premier League rivals.
LIVERPOOL have dismissed Head Physio Andy Renshaw, who had been at the club for more than eight years.
LIVERPOOL are the first Premier League team to start using infrared thermography software produced by a Spanish company called ThermoHuman.
LIVERPOOL’S Head Physio, Andy Renshaw, has hit back at critics of the club’s injury record, insisting the medical department achieve ‘outstanding’ results.
LIVERPOOL defender Dejan Lovren says he has been taking ‘five painkillers before every game’ - despite warnings about the overuse of medication from leading experts.
MICHAEL BEALE has returned to Liverpool as head of coaching for the foundation phase at the Kirkby Academy.
HEAD PHYSIO Andy Renshaw explained what happens in a Liverpool medical as Naby Keita completed his switch to Anfield this morning.
ANY goalkeeper in the world would make mistakes for Liverpool because of their attacking style of play, according to Reds coach John Achterberg.
LIVERPOOL legend Steven Gerrard says coaching is completely different to playing and that stars who expect top jobs are “cutting corners”.
LIVERPOOL boss Jurgen Klopp has picked out six key backroom staff without whom he would be ‘nothing’.
ENGLISHMAN Michael Beale has resigned from his job as assistant manager of São Paulo.
ARSENAL have appointed Darren Burgess, Liverpool's former Head of Fitness and Conditioning, as their new Head of Elite Performance.
WEST BROM won the Premier League fitness title in 2016/17, with the lowest number of significant injuries and days lost to injury.
LIVERPOOL and Tottenham are taking a “risk too far” with their players by flying them thousands of miles to play friendlies this week, says the MD of one of Fifa’s medical centres of excellence.
LEADING sports scientist Tim Gabbett has defended Liverpool’s approach to training after Raymond Verheijen described it as a ‘mess’.
JURGEN KLOPP says Chelsea have been ‘lucky’ with injuries this season, leading his old nemesis Raymond Verheijen to claim the German has created a ‘mess’ at Liverpool.
STEVEN GERRARD vowed to switch the focus away from “showboating” and “lollipops” as he was unveiled as Liverpool’s new Under-18s manager today.
SAO PAULO assistant Michael Beale says English football has suffered because of a focus on developing teams instead of individuals at youth level.
LIVERPOOL’S Andy O’Boyle has been appointed as the new Head of Elite Performance at the Premier League.
LIVERPOOL have been banned from signing academy players from other clubs for at least a year after being found to have tapped up a 12-year-old Stoke City player and offered both him and his family inducements.
BARCELONA are already one of the main clients of Dorset-based Elite Skills Arena - which seems fitting for a company vowing to bring Tiki Taka to any club or country.