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Jun 10, 2025, 05:13 AM ET
Jürgen Klopp's erstwhile adjunct manager astatine Liverpool, Pep Lijnders, has joined Pep Guardiola's unit astatine Manchester City.
Lijnders replaces Juanma Lilo arsenic Guardiola's adjunct coach. City besides confirmed different accomplishment from Liverpool connected Tuesday successful the signifier of set-piece manager James French.
French joined Liverpool's backroom squad successful 2012 and has gone connected to walk much than a decennary astatine Anfield, moving arsenic archetypal squad absorption analyst.
"We are each delighted that Pepijn and James person joined our elder coaching set-up," City's manager of shot Hugo Viana said successful a statement.
"Pepijn and James person each amassed immense acquisition moving successful their idiosyncratic roles implicit the past fewer years.
"Their talent, application, enactment ethic and all-round committedness are wholly aligned with the values that underpin however Pep wants shot to beryllium played.
"And I person nary uncertainty astatine each that some volition beryllium to beryllium precise important assets for Pep and his coaching squad arsenic we hole for the Club World Cup and past the 2025/26 season."
Lijnders initially joined Liverpool nether Brendan Rodgers successful 2014 and, aft a little spell arsenic caput manager of Dutch broadside NEC Nijmegen successful 2018, returned to enactment nether Klopp.
The 42-year-old was portion of the coaching squad that helped present Liverpool's sixth Champions League rubric successful 2019 and archetypal Premier League triumph the pursuing year.
He announced his departure on with Klopp past summertime and was named caput manager of Red Bull Salzburg up of the 2024-25 campaign.
Lijnders has been retired of enactment since December aft being dismissed by the Austrian broadside aft conscionable 29 games.
