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Liverpool will have their fourth sporting director on site at the AXA Training Centre when Richard Hughes formally begins on June 1.

Schmadtke's one-year agreement was cut short at the end of the January transfer window with Hughes now slated to leave his position at Bournemouth to start at Liverpool from the end of the current campaign.

Show Champions League-chasing Liverpool mean business

Paul Gorst: Richard Hughes may be of the belief that Liverpool's squad only needs minor adjustments this summer.

Who those targets are will be revealed in due course but the Reds need a centre-back, defensive midfielder and potentially a centre-forward and anything less than an emphatic transfer window will lead to inevitable questions, fairly or not, about a club struggling with a post-Klopp hangover.



Complete last summer's transfer saga

Joe Rimmer: Richard Hughes better not have any summer holidays planned, because he's going to be hard at it all summer.

And with a new manager at the helm at Liverpool, Hughes will start work in a fresh environment at Liverpool.

Just look at the impact Rodri's absence has on Man City or how the signing of Declan Rice pushed Arsenal to new heights.

And what a boost it'd be for Arne Slot if Liverpool were able to make a statement of such intent in the transfer market.

Who that player might be will remain open to debate but if Michael Edwards and Hughes want to show they mean business, ending a transfer saga that has now run into its second year is a good way to go about it.
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