FSG could drop hint over Liverpool transfer strategy with Ruben Amorim appointment
This week began with plenty of excitement from a Liverpool perspective after reports in Portugal and Germany claimed that Ruben Amorim had verbally agreed a deal to become the next Reds boss.
The 39-year-old Sporting CP boss emerged as a front-runner for the role as soon as it was revealed that Jurgen Klopp would be stepping down from his duties at the end of this season, with the links to the Portuguese only intensifying after another hotly-tipped candidate, Xabi Alonso, pledged his future to Bayer Leverkusen.
However, the reports were swiftly knocked down by various media outlets, with Liverpool sources adamant that no job offer had been made to any potential new boss, nor any kind of verbal agreement reached.
Amorim remains the red-hot favourite to land the role and take the reins from Klopp, with the search for a new boss the highest priority for Fenway Sports Group’s new CEO of Football, the returning Michael Edwards.
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Amorim makes sense for a number of reasons, not least for the fact that appointing a manager with such a CV and knowledge base of the Portuguese league and the player pathway that exists from South American football, through Portugal, and into the major European leagues.
FSG will be adding a new football club to its portfolio in the not-too-distant future. The Liverpool owners, with Edwards leading the search in his new role, are currently in the process of identifying a club to acquire, something that was pivotal to Edwards returning to the fold. In recent years FSG has looked at the Brazilian market, although Europe seems a more likely
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