Liverpool is left without the key man for the signing of Díaz

Liverpool will have to look for a new sports director. According to the English press, Julian Ward will leave the club in the summer, that is to say, at the end of the present season and only one year after assuming said position in property.

In the winter market (January 2022), the connection was already being made with Michael Edwards, who He advised in the process to sign Luis Díaz, but it was Ward who was in charge of this operation.

With Edwards as sports director, a position he assumed in 2016, there were important arrivals such as Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Fabinho and Diogo Jota, but With the great signing of Díaz, Ward’s stage in this position began, Well, he’s been in Liverpool for a decade.

“This news comes in a slightly unstable climate at Liverpool, with the team out of Champions League positions and with the possible sale of the club in the air, after Fenway Sports Group has shown itself open to the entry of new investors and even to a sale”, reported Agencia EFE.

Liverpool and Díaz prepare the second part of the campaign

The first half of the season was irregular for Jürgen Klopp’s team. Even so, they managed to get into the round of 16 of the Champions League, a phase in which they will face Real Madrid, but in the Premier he is far from the top, as he is sixth with 22 points, 15 behind leader Arsenal.

Manchester City will be the first rival of the Reds after the break for the World Cup in Qatar 2022 in the framework of the round of 16 of the Carabao Cup, days before Boxing Day, with which Premier activity will return. By then, Klopp hopes to have Diaz, absent since October due to injury, available.