Liverpool’s backroom group remains to be coming collectively below Arne Slot, and now the Dutchman is to be reunited with one other former Feyenoord colleague.
There are many new faces on the membership after a severe transition over the summer season but when early outcomes are something to go by, everybody has settled in properly.
Now, in response to 1908.nl, a dependable Dutch outlet, Liverpool have been in a position to lure one other member of Slot’s former employees to Merseyside.
Roderick van der Ham is the most recent to make the change to Anfield after greater than two seasons with Feyenoord, becoming a member of as a video analyst.
Liverpool managed “to lure the analyst away” from Rotterdam and can reunite Van der Ham with Slot, Sipke Hulshoff and Ruben Peeters, all of whom loved success collectively at Feyenoord.
The quartet received the Eredivisie title in 2022/23 and the KNVB Cup final season, with Van der Ham current for 95 video games throughout Slot’s tutelage in Rotterdam.
Earlier than shifting to Feyenoord in 2022, the 33-year-old beforehand labored as a video analyst with Dutch topflight sides Heracles Almelo and RKC Waalwijk.
Video evaluation performs a distinguished and integral function throughout a soccer membership, from opposition evaluation to post-game and coaching session reflections, they usually work intently with the teaching group.
It might not be a shock, then, if Van der Ham was to help Aaron Briggs relating to set-pieces, with the membership having ‘paused’ their seek for a specialist coach.
Briggs has assumed accountability for the Reds’ set-pieces, extending his tasks past the title he was employed as, which was as first-team growth coach to fill the void left by Vitor Matos.
It’s a group effort, although, with the Athletic‘s James Pearce beforehand reporting that there was enter from analysts Dan Spearritt, Joel Bonner and Jansen Moreno in addition to opposition analyst James French.
The report from 1908.nl didn’t supply a clue as to when Van der Ham will begin his function at Liverpool, however he’ll show one other helpful piece of the jigsaw for Slot and Co.