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Julian Ward has been instrumental to Liverpool's successful transfer dealings in recent years but will depart his role as sporting director after one season in the job Julian Ward is leaving Liverpool after one season as sporting director Liverpool sporting director has sealed a deal to take up a similar role with Dutch giants in the summer. Ward, 41, he would be leaving Anfield at the end of the season just a few months after replacing the highly-successful Michael Edwards in the transfer hot seat.

Will Liverpool struggle to replace Julian Ward?



Julian Ward (right) helped Liverpool tie down Jurgen Klopp to a new contract last year (



Ward will become Ajax’s first foreign sporting director, although 38 of the club’s 50 managers between 1915 and 1965 were English.