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Liverpool are still putting the finishing touches to the team who will take them into the 2024/25 season.

As we’ve known since January, it will be the first time the Reds head into a campaign without Jurgen Klopp since 2015/16.

Klopp’s Liverpool backroom staff did not always stay the same over that time.



And as Arne Slot has arrived to replace Jurgen, he has slowly been assembling a group of trusted lieutenants.

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It has been a big task for Liverpool to bring in a whole new staff for Slot this summer.

With the season now five weeks away from starting, the job is still not quite done.

It was reported last week that Liverpool are set to appoint two new coaches to Slot’s team.

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One of those has now already arrived.

Thankfully, we know exactly the man for the job.

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A recent trend in football has been for clubs to hire former players back in certain roles.

Torres spent a week shadowing Klopp and Lijnders at the AXA Training Centre, but it didn’t happen.

Instead though, the Spaniard’s former teammate, Dirk Kuyt, would look like a much more suitable addition to Slot’s team.

Kuyt has just led Belgian side Beerschot to the first division but surely could be tempted back to Anfield to be part of the new-look coaching staff.

According to The Daily Mail, Liverpool have been considering the hiring of former Netherlands international Johnny Heitinga.

He managed Feyenoord’s U19 side from 2018 to 2020, had a brief stint as head coach at ADO Den Haag in 2022 and has done well at Beerschot since being appointed last year.

Kuyt expressed delight when Liverpool hired Slot, saying that the Reds had ‘made a very good choice.’ A legend at Slot’s former club, Feyenoord, Kuyt has even been invited by Slot to observe his training sessions in the past.

“A while ago I was invited by Arne Slot to come visit,” he said in 2023.