Former Liverpool assistant coach Pep Lijnders has joined Manchester City's coaching staff, becoming Pep Guardiola's new assistant.
City have simultaneously announced the appointment of James French, who also worked at Liverpool, as set-piece coach.
The pair replace Juanma Lillo, Inigo Dominguez and Carlos Vicens, Guardiola's former assistants who left the club at the end of last season.
Ljinders joins Guardiola's coaching staff, having been a part of Jurgen Klopp and Brendan Rodgers' backroom team at Anfield across two separate spells.
The 42-year-old initially joined Liverpool in 2014 under Rodgers, before becoming Klopp's assistant in 2015 as the German began a transformative nine years in charge of the current Premier League champions.
The Dutch coach then briefly left Anfield to take up a stint as head coach of NEC in the Eredivisie in 2018. However, after being dismissed by NEC at the end of the 2017/18 season, Ljinders returned to Liverpool.
Ljinders left the Reds along with Klopp at the end of the 2023/24 season and was most recently in charge of Red Bull Salzburg - owned by Red Bull GmbH for whom Klopp works for as head of football - but he left the Austrian in December 2024.
French, who spent over a decade at Liverpool as an opposition analyst after joining in 2012, has experience with the Welsh FA as well as spending time at Swansea.
zimklnstu
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pepper looserpool fans
nimbciny
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my follow Liverpool fans why are you guys bothered about him joining City, that his choice and since he left we have become more stronger and it doesn't mean that city is going to defeat us... after all we have had coaches and players that left and join our rivals and we are still going stronger and better....... YNWA
truthisbitter
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Lol, shitty are not a real team. They're oilers with no one taking them seriously even if they win. Soulless club with fraud as their main tactic for success.
tell me your stupid club and I tell you why city is head and shoulders above it!
raeaostyz
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Wow!!! This life don’t trust anyone, whoever thought that Pep Lijnders would joined man city as assistant coach or is it because of the name Pep Guardiola, not just him but both that was with Liverpool fc.
He's desperate for a job, needs to pay the bills. Even City would do.
Fasdol
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Traitor
raeaostyz
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he wanna learn from the best coach in the world!
Lol, shitty are not a real team. They're oilers with no one taking them seriously even if they win. Soulless club with fraud as their main tactic for success.
truthisbitter
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Best coach ??? You are a joke mate
joke will joke you to foolishness!
Badhur
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he wanna learn from the best coach in the world!
Best coach ??? You are a joke mate
Badhur
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Pep joined pep at last
truthisbitter
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he wanna learn from the best coach in the world!
my-blood-is-red
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Wow what a f**kn backstabber
kohcdklopz
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traitor
wukekmnort
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What of Benitez that later couch Everton
dudbcosu
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wat a betrayal
Lucadmstuy
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Money powerful then loyalty
Joelinhocent
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Wow!!! This life don’t trust anyone, whoever thought that Pep Lijnders would joined man city as assistant coach or is it because of the name Pep Guardiola, not just him but both that was with Liverpool fc.
dahbcdioz
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betrayal......