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FSG (Fenway Sports Group) have made an acquisition from Man City this week according to reliable reports.

The exit of Klopp, who departed after nine trophy-laden years, triggered sweeping changes throughout Liverpool’s hierarchy.

Unlike the traditional manager role Klopp occupied, Arne Slot was appointed with the more limited title of head coach, reflecting a deliberate limitation of his responsibilities to primarily on-field matters.

Mike Gordon, previously Liverpool’s day-to-day leader as FSG president and Klopp’s primary contact with ownership, has purposefully reduced his involvement in football operations.

In the gap left by Klopp and Gordon, Richard Hughes arrived from Bournemouth as sporting director, Pedro Marques was appointed technical director, and perhaps most significantly, Michael Edwards returned to the organization in the newly created position of chief executive of football for FSG.

And now, the Athletic has reported that Liverpool’s data-driven transformation has now received a significant boost with the recruitment of Laurie Shaw from City Football Group (CFG).

Shaw, who served as director of football data at CFG, was placed on gardening leave in January and is expected to join FSG in the coming weeks, working across the group’s portfolio of sports franchises and not just Liverpool.

Shaw joined City Football Group in 2021 from Harvard University, where he had been a research scientist and lecturer in the Department of Statistics.

At CFG, he initially led artificial intelligence initiatives before being promoted to oversee all football data operations across the group’s global network of clubs, including Manchester City

His familiarity with a multi-club setup should prove invaluable as FSG look to replicated with CFG have done in the last 20 or so years.

His exceptional academic credentials include a physics degree from Imperial College London and a PhD in Astrophysics from Cambridge University.

Before entering football, Shaw worked as a policy advisor for the British Government and in quantitative finance at Winton Capital Management, establishing himself as a respected figure in data science.

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