12 Feb 2026 15:31:50
According to Riyadiyatv (seems like it's the BBC of Saudi Arabia? ), Richard Hughes is set to become Al-Hilal's new sporting director ASAP. The negotiations have been apparently going on since October 2025 (as per another Saudi source). Wonder how this would affect everyone involved.
12 Feb 2026 16:16:21
Thank God for that! The bloke is useless.
12 Feb 2026 16:24:20
The "BBC of Saudi Arabia" sounds like the worst place in the entire world. ?
12 Feb 2026 16:27:24
This wouldn't surprise me at all.
12 Feb 2026 16:32:34
Wonder if task #1 is to attract Mo Salah?
12 Feb 2026 16:41:28
Admitting defeat that quickly at a big club, whilst stepping into the sporting wilderness, would truly show us what Richard Huge is made of. I can't see it myself, unless cash Mo is his motive.
12 Feb 2026 16:47:14
Fingers crossed.
12 Feb 2026 16:48:56
Any Salah move to the Saudi Pro League, no matter which club, would be engineered by Michael Emenalo, I would think. I think Emenalo would have been Sporting Director at Chelsea when Salah joined them.
12 Feb 2026 17:12:26
Would explain a great deal if true. Fingers crossed, but I find it difficult to believe they'd want him.
12 Feb 2026 17:36:43
Will he take Slot with him?
12 Feb 2026 17:37:18
There have been a few negative reports about his hard-nosed deal tactics, and yet we didn't get any bargains despite those rumours. Maybe his way just doesn't fit with LFC, and FSG are willing to let him go. These kind of rumours are usually schticky, though, and last time it was Edwards.
12 Feb 2026 17:56:39
Maybe it's already decided who the next Head Coach/Manager is, and the club is making moves in line with that. If Alonso came now, things got good, and Mo played blinders in every game, the clamour for Mo to stay would be huge.
BUT, if the new whoever wants a different RW, then would you want, as the newbie, to be the individual who gets rid of Mo? It could well be, as I suggested above, the decks are being cleared ready for the new guy.
12 Feb 2026 18:30:05
Please God let it be true.
12 Feb 2026 17:58:03
The BBC of Saudi they got very naughty secrets about people too?
12 Feb 2026 18:38:35
LFC needs a Football Manager who is the only one responsible for signing new recruits, personally taking training sessions, who marks who at set pieces, etc. Shankly, Paisley, Clough, Ferguson, Klopp would have told anyone to f*** off if they could not have the players they wanted, coaches collectively deciding tactics, team formations, etc. Amorim left Man United because he knows the current modern methods of player recruitment, many many coaches, Footballing/Sporting directors actually making signings without the final nod of the manager, does not work and will never work. Edwards is currently the Football Director of LFC, having never kicked a football in his life, similar to a "Duck (d***) out of Water" that is the problem of Sporting Directors, they never played professional football, they are all basically Office Wallers (Waffler!) Snotty Pen Pushers! Damien Commoli, an ex LFC Football Director, was similar to what we have now in d*** and Ted (alias d***-Ed!), FSG sacked Commoli for a poor return on their investments, although he signed Suarez and Henderson, the first LFC captain to lift the PL trophy after a 30 year title drought, but where they in fact King Kenny's signings? FSG then implemented the infamous Moneyball Transfer System, which is pre dominantly data driven, computer analysis, etc.
This is what is currently in place now according to Wikipedia? FSG have tried to do away with the special abilities of a top level scout such as Geoff Twentyman, Tom Saunders, etc, who recommended Keegan, Clemence, Emlyn Hughes, Dalglish, Souness, etc, a very unique talent that is far better than computer analysis, programmes, etc. As Shanks said, who first appointed him, a top echelon scout was an absolute must. Though Sir Bill and Sir Bob did a lot of their scouting from the dug out /touchline for players who impressed playing against LFC competitively. I fully agree with Amorim, a top, top football club has to have a Manager, not a Coach! I note Spurs also have a current Football Director, only changed on 15 January 2026, they are about as much use as an "Ashtray on a Motorbike". Get shut, the buck starts and stops with a Football Manager, as all the great managers will tell anyone, and they certainly would not reveal to the Public we don't like playing low block teams, we are tired, ye never wash ye dirty laundry in public! YNWA 97 and 20.
12 Feb 2026 18:41:22
Like I've been saying, he is wanted out by Liverpool, and Arne Slot closely followed. They both will leave on a mutual agreement.
12 Feb 2026 18:46:04
The BBC of Saudi..I wonder how much their licenses are.and I wonder if their Corporation is full of Camel fiddlers.?
12 Feb 2026 19:49:57
RobboLFC, is it Edwards' decision to let Hughes go? Or is this coming from the higher up regime of the club?
12 Feb 2026 21:05:31
BBC Saudi? Is that a choppier version of BBC Pidgin?
12 Feb 2026 22:16:09
Maybe his parting gift will be to send a crazy transfer fee to bring Isak over there.
13 Feb 2026 13:49:57
Not true.