{"id":198103,"date":"2024-07-09T13:54:21","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T13:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/07\/09\/former-everton-star-confirms-talks-over-liverpool-move\/"},"modified":"2024-07-09T13:54:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T13:54:21","slug":"former-everton-star-confirms-talks-over-liverpool-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/07\/09\/former-everton-star-confirms-talks-over-liverpool-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Everton star confirms talks over Liverpool move \u2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Former Everton defender John Heitinga has confirmed he is in talks with Liverpool over joining Arne Slot\u2019s new look coaching team at Anfield.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Slot is looking to build his backroom staff and confirmed in his first press conference as Liverpool manager that he was expecting two more hirings to be made before the start of the season.<\/p>\n<p>It appears as though one of those is Heitinga, who told\u00a0<em>De Telegraaf<\/em>\u00a0that he had been approached by\u00a0Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m in talks with Liverpool,\u201d the former centre-back revealed. \u201cAll I can say now is that I have been approached and that my agent Rob Jansen and I are in discussions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Heitinga, who made 140 appearances for Everton between 2009 and 2014, retired in 2016 and, after spending time working in Ajax\u2019s youth setup, was David Moyes\u2019 assistant manager at West Ham United last season.<\/p>\n<p>Moyes was in charge at Everton when Heitinga joined and led the Dutch international in six games against Liverpool. Heitinga managed a record of one win, one draw and four losses against the Reds.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/01j2bh9vxb8xe8avzenh.jpg\" alt=\"John Heitinga\" title=\"John Heitinga\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Heitinga could be back on Merseyside \/ Stu Forster\/GettyImages<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<p>Slot gave an insight into his\u00a0new coaching staff\u00a0during his first meeting with the press.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think what has been announced already is Sipke Hulshoff [as assistant manager], who I\u2019ve already worked with at Feyenoord and our former club Cambuur.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGoalkeeping coach [Fabian Otte] has been announced, I haven\u2019t worked with him but we\u2019ve spoken to him and are really happy he\u2019s going to join our team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re expecting two others to join. A couple more announcements in the near future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Coaches Pep Lijnders, Vitor Matos and John Achterberg all left Liverpool at the end of last season when Jurgen Klopp stepped down after nine years in charge.<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Everton defender John Heitinga has confirmed he is in talks with Liverpool over joining Arne Slot\u2019s new look coaching team at Anfield. Slot is looking to build his backroom staff and confirmed in his first press conference as Liverpool manager that he was expecting two more hirings to be made before the start of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":198104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Former Everton star confirms talks over Liverpool move \u2013 - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/07\/09\/former-everton-star-confirms-talks-over-liverpool-move\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Former Everton star confirms talks over Liverpool move \u2013 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former Everton defender John Heitinga has confirmed he is in talks with Liverpool over joining Arne Slot\u2019s new look coaching team at Anfield. 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