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New York Times
07-07-2025
- Sport
- New York Times
Tottenham to name former Liverpool coach Fabian Otte as new head of goalkeeping
Tottenham Hotspur have named former Liverpool goalkeeper coach Fabian Otte, 34, as the club's new head of goalkeeping, a week after his departure from Anfield was announced. Otte joins Thomas Frank's new-look backroom team after the Dane replaced Ange Postecoglou as head coach last month. Justin Cochrane, Chris Haslam and Joe Newton all followed Frank from Brentford, while set-piece specialist Andreas Georgson has joined from Manchester United. Advertisement Otte left Liverpool last week after one season working under head coach Arne Slot as part of a shake up of the Dutchman's backroom staff. Brazil legend Taffarel also left Anfield, with Xavi Valero – previously on Rafa Benitez's coaching staff at Liverpool – returning to the Merseyside club as the new head of first-team goalkeeper coaching. Otte arrived at Liverpool in summer 2024 following spells with the U.S. men's national team, Burnley and Borussia Monchengladbach. Three members of Postecoglou's backroom staff, Mile Jedinak, Nick Montgomery and Sergio Raimundo, left Spurs with the Australian, while Ryan Mason took the head coach's job at West Bromwich Albion shortly before his dismissal. (Christian Verheyen/Borussia Moenchengladbach via Getty Images)
BBC News
07-07-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Spurs set to appoint new goalkeeper coach
Tottenham are set to appoint former Liverpool goalkeeper coach Fabian Otte onto Thomas Frank's backroom left the Red last week and has immediately been snapped up by Spurs before the 2025-26 head coach Frank, who has replaced Ange Postecoglou, is piecing together his staff following his arrival from Cochrane, Chris Haslam and Joe Newton have all joined from Brentford while Andreas Georgson has arrived from Manchester will be the latest addition, with the German coach, 34, also having worked for the USA national team, Borussia Monchengladbach and players have started arriving at the club's Enfield HQ for pre-season ahead of their tour of South Korea later this Spurs are in talks over a move for West Ham attacker Mohamed Kudus after seeing an initial £50million offer rejected by the is determined to join Tottenham from the London Stadium this month.
New York Times
02-07-2025
- Sport
- New York Times
Giovanni van Bronckhorst named Liverpool assistant, Xavi Valero returns in coaching shake up
Liverpool have confirmed the appointment of Giovanni van Bronckhorst as assistant coach, while Xavi Valero has returned to the club as goalkeeping coach following the departures of both Fabian Otte and Claudio Taffarel. The Athletic reported on June 12 that Van Bronckhorst, 50, was close to joining Liverpool's backroom team as a replacement for John Heitinga, who departed to take up the head coach's role at Ajax. Advertisement Van Bronckhorst will form a new-look backroom team alongside Sipke Hulshoff and Aaron Briggs, and Valero – who has returned to the club from Premier League rivals West Ham United. Valero first joined the Reds in 2007 under then-boss Rafael Benitez and subsequently worked under the Spaniard at Internazionale, Chelsea, Napoli and Real Madrid, joining West Ham in summer 2018 following a spell with Hebei China Fortune. Van Bronckhorst has held roles at Feyenoord, Rangers and Besiktas, and while he has never worked with Slot before, the pair share a similar philosophy regarding playing style. The role marks a first return to the Premier League for the former Netherlands international since his two seasons at Arsenal between 2001 and 2003. The former midfielder and full-back also played for Feyenoord, Rangers, and Barcelona and was capped 106 times by his country across a 17-year professional career. He retired in 2010 and began his coaching career in Feyenoord's academy, before spending four years as the club's first-team manager. He then had a short spell coaching in China before taking charge of Rangers for a year. Following his dismissal as Rangers manager in November 2022, Van Bronckhorst was sacked from his position as Besiktas manager after five months in charge in December 2024. He has been working as a UEFA analyst since the start of 2025. Valero, meanwhile, returns to Liverpool as a replacement for Otte and Taffarel, who have both departed after one season working under Slot – marking a wholesale change in the club's first-team goalkeeper coaching set up. Otte arrived in summer 2024, the same summer in which Slot was appointed, following spells with the US Men's National Team, Burnley and Borussia Monchengladbach. Brazilian World Cup-winner Taffarel began coaching with Liverpool in 2021, initially working under Slot's predecessor Jurgen Klopp. Advertisement By The Athletic's Jordan Campbell Van Bronckhorst took time out of the game after six months in Turkey managing Besiktas, which was not the easiest to navigate behind the scenes. He had opportunities to return to management and that remained his plan but this was too good an opportunity to turn down. The Feyenoord connection also helped. Van Bronckhorst knows English football well from his time as an Arsenal player and he also spent time at City Football Group where he learned the methodology employed by Pep Guardiola. He never joined the network, however, and after a spell in China he returned to Rangers where he had success as a player. He won a Scottish Cup but the highlight proved to be an astonishing run to the Europa League final which saw the Scottish side beat Borussia Dortmund, Red Star Belgrade, Braga and RB Leipzig before losing to Eintracht Frankfurt on penalties. He was unable to build on that success domestically and was sacked midway through the next season after a dismal Champions League group performance. His style matches Slot's in that it is possession-based and he usually operates with a 4-3-3. But his super strength, as he showed in Rangers' run, is his eye for detail in one-off games so he should be a strong addition to the staff given his experience at big clubs with big expectations.
