Eddie Howe confirms Newcastle have poached highly-rated Liverpool backroom member ahead of clash
Newcastle have confirmed they’ve poached a member of Liverpool’s coaching staff ahead of tomorrow’s Premier League fixture at Anfield.
Mark Leyland has left Anfield to link-up with the Magpies.
Leyland, who served as the Reds’ head of post-match and elite player development analysis reunited with Eddie Howe, having worked together at Burnley.
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Hide AdSpeaking ahead of Thursday’s game, Newcastle boss Howe said: “Mark has joined the club from Liverpool. He’s someone that I worked with at Burnley.
“Really, really good guy, first and foremost, to come in as a coach/analyst, so he’ll be helping us with all our implementation of our training.”
Who is Mark Leyland?
Leyland joined Liverpool from Burnley in the summer of 2013.
He worked at the Clarets as a performance analysts 10 months beforehand, having been hired by Howe and then working under now-manager Sean Dyche.
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Hide AdLeyland, who is from Hoylake, Wirral and is a lifelong Liverpool fan, had previously been at Everton.
Is it a big blow for Liverpool?
According to The Independent, manager Jurgen Klopp and assistan Pep Linjders both wanted Leyland to remain at Liverpool.
But he’s heading to Newcastle to take up a role that is a mixtures of a coach and collating performance data.
In essence, it’s a promotion on his Reds role and Klopp didn’t want to stand in Leyland’s way.
Leyland will now help plot Newcastle’s Premier League survival bid. They languish 19th in the table.
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