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Liverpool should be the envy of every club across England as the 2024/25 season draws to a close.

The Reds are all set to win a record equalling 20th league title and look primed to get even better under Arne Slot.

Slot has promised a big transfer window this summer as he starts to really make his mark on the Liverpool squad.

Helping him do that will be Richard Hughes, who has begun to earn the grace of Liverpool fans after tying up new contracts for Mohamed Salah and – imminently – Virgil van Dijk.

Beyond Slot and Hughes, though, Liverpool owners FSG have assembled a crack team behind the scenes to ensure the club is in the best place possible to continue to grow.

And after convincing the likes of Michael Edwards and Julian Ward to return, it seems FSG believe they have now pulled off a ‘major coup’ to top it all off.

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Liverpool are often seen as being one of the best when it comes to getting the right people in the right places at backroom level.

Edwards was a huge success story over an impressive decade at the club and although he now officially works for FSG, the Liverpool ECHO report that the former sporting director still has a say in goings on at Anfield.

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And having brought Hughes in to do his old job, Edwards has now moved to hire Laurie Shaw as ‘chief scientist.’

While that is an intriguing job title to hold at a football club, the ECHO report that Shaw arrives with an enormous reputation in data circles.

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He joins after a four-year stint as director of football data for the City Football Group – Man City’s owners – and is reportedly being referred to by some as the ‘Erling Haaland of his field.’

Shaw’s arrival is said to have been held up as a ‘major coup’ by Liverpool, with the data-cruncher working to improve LFC specifically, rather than FSG as a whole.

Shaw’s arrival will no doubt excite those supporters who like to pay attention to such things.

For most fans, though, as long as he helps to get things right in the transfer market, they perhaps won’t especially care.

While it is always a boost to secure football people who are well respected within the industry, the proof will always be in the pudding.

In that respect, Shaw is joining a well established team at Liverpool who are already well onboard with using data to get results on the pitch.

It is said to be unclear exactly when Shaw will begin his duties with the Reds, but he will reportedly work under director of research Will Spearman, head of data science Dafydd Steele, and Tim Waskett, an astrophysicist who specialises in coding.