According to the latest press reports, former Bolton manager Sammy Lee is set to take over the vacant assistant manager’s job at Liverpool.
The ex England and Liverpool midfielder has plenty of previous experience in the role, most famously as Sam Allardyce’s right-hand man at the Reebok, and he also already a close associate of Reds boss Rafa Benitez from his time in Spain
In fact, Benitez advocated Lee’s appointment when former first-team coach Alex Miller accepted an offer to become manager of J League outfit JEF United Chiba last month.
Liverpool chief executive Rick Parry is said to have held numerous discussions with Lee during the course of the week, and all indications are that an agreement will be reached.
This will not be the first time that Lee has been involved in the backroom at Anfield having previously been reserve team manager and first team coach at the club under Graeme Souness and Gerard Houllier.
Benitez, in the meanwhile, has suggested that he will be thinking about how best to prepare the club for the coming season even while on holiday with his family.
?I don?t tend to have too much time away from football, but I will try to switch off for a bit,? he said. ?I will have to try to hide my mobile phone, and if my wife can’t find out about it I?ll try and keep it on me.
?But if she finds it I?m sure she?ll throw it in the swimming pool.?
Derek Wanner, Goal.com
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