Former Liverpool assistant coach Pep Lijnders has joined Manchester City's coaching staff, becoming Pep Guardiola's new assistant.

City have simultaneously announced the appointment of James French, who also worked at Liverpool, as set-piece coach.

The pair replace Juanma Lillo, Inigo Dominguez and Carlos Vicens, Guardiola's former assistants who left the club at the end of last season.

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Lijnders honours at LiverpoolPremier League - 2019/20.

Ljinders joins Guardiola's coaching staff, having been a part of Jurgen Klopp and Brendan Rodgers' backroom team at Anfield across two separate spells.

The 42-year-old initially joined Liverpool in 2014 under Rodgers, before becoming Klopp's assistant in 2015 as the German began a transformative nine years in charge of the current Premier League champions.



Lijnders (left) was a part of a transformative few years at Liverpool

However, after being dismissed by NEC at the end of the 2017/18 season, Ljinders returned to Liverpool.

Ljinders left the Reds along with Klopp at the end of the 2023/24 season and was most recently in charge of Red Bull Salzburg - owned by Red Bull GmbH for whom Klopp works for as head of football - but he left the Austrian in December 2024.

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French, who spent over a decade at Liverpool as an opposition analyst after joining in 2012, has experience with the Welsh FA as well as spending time at Swansea.

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