One soccer agent has branded Richard Hughes a ‘robotic’ who lacks ‘any sense of empathy’ in a vibrant tirade towards the Liverpool sporting director.
The ex-Bournemouth chief has had a tough first few months at Anfield, having overseen a quiet summer time switch window and so far did not resolve the contract conditions concerning Virgil van Dijk, Trent Alexander-Arnold and Mo Salah.
The latter went public along with his emotions on his future when, after the Reds’ win over Southampton on Sunday, he spoke of his disappointment at not but being provided a brand new deal on Merseyside simply seven months out from the expiry of his present phrases.
Agent blasts ‘robotic’ Richard Hughes
Talking on the Kieft Jansen Egmond Gijp podcast, soccer agent Rob Jansen – who represents Liverpool assistant head coach Johnny Heitinga – claimed that Hughes’ manner could also be a part of the explanation why Salah’s contract scenario hasn’t but been resolved.
He declared (by way of soccernews.nl): “One factor Richard Hughes doesn’t have is any sense of empathy. Zero. He’s a robotic. I do know that as a result of I negotiated with him, for Heitinga. There’s zero emotions in him. That might be the explanation, particularly with a participant like Salah, who has emotion, has a unique tradition and is delicate to heat.”
Fellow podcast host René van der Gijp, a former winger with PSV Eindhoven, registered his shock on the ongoing contractual deadlock by saying: “You’d suppose in case you are that membership, that you’d textual content Salah thrice a day and ship a bouquet of flowers twice a day?”
Hughes must get contracts sorted out ASAP
Whereas we don’t condone the private assault on Hughes from Jansen (i.e. the ‘robotic’ remark), it’s justifiable for followers to ask why the Liverpool sporting director hasn’t secured a brand new contract for even one of many three essential gamers whose present offers expire subsequent June.
The agent is talking from a place of getting handled the 45-year-old within the negotiations for Heitinga and will effectively have discovered the ex-Bournemouth chief to be a distant character, and maybe that obvious lack of emotion is an enormous purpose as to why he was employed for the function that he has at Anfield.
At boardroom degree, sentiment ought to not enter the considering over main selections reminiscent of contracts and recruitment, however Salah is such an distinctive participant that an exception could be merited in his case.
As Henry Winter sensibly opined, Liverpool don’t have anybody who’d be able to instantly filling the void that the Egyptian’s departure would create, neither is there a fairly attainable various of comparable high quality elsewhere.
Many Reds followers on social media have been distinctly unimpressed with Hughes in his first few months at Anfield, however he has the chance to reply the critics in fashion if he can safe new contracts for Salah, Van Dijk and Trent within the coming weeks.
