{"id":529538,"date":"2026-07-02T15:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T15:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/529538\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T15:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T15:01:09","slug":"liverpool-news-sporting-director-richard-hughes-not-expected-to-sign-new-deal-at-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/529538\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool news: Sporting director Richard Hughes not expected to sign new deal at club"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liverpool<\/a> sporting director Richard Hughes is not expected to sign a new deal to remain at the club beyond 2027.<\/p>\n

Hughes’ current contract expires next June and BBC Sport understands he is likely to link up with former Bournemouth<\/a> colleague Simon Francis at Saudi Arabia’s Al Hilal.<\/p>\n

Al Hilal and Francis are operating on the basis that Hughes will join the club.<\/p>\n

Francis replaced Hughes as Bournemouth<\/a>‘s technical director when Hughes was hired by Liverpool<\/a> owner’s Fenway Sports Group in 2024 and is now leading Al Hilal’s transfer activity, having left the Cherries at the end of the season.<\/p>\n

As it stands, Hughes and Liverpool<\/a> are focused solely on the current transfer window and the forthcoming season, which is the first for Andoni Iraola, since he replaced Arne Slot.<\/p>\n

Liverpool<\/a> have signed French defender Jeremy Jacquet<\/a> and Spanish winger Victor Munoz<\/a> this summer, with the former’s signature secured in January before Iraola’s arrival.<\/p>\n

Midfielder Harvey Elliott is also set to return to the club after his loan spell at Aston Villa<\/a> expired.<\/p>\n

Liverpool<\/a> continue to be linked with attackers including Paris St-Germain’s Bradley Barcola, but are set to be disappointed in their pursuit of Ivory Coast star Yan Diomande, who prefers a move to PSG<\/a> this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool sporting director Richard Hughes is not expected to sign a new deal to remain at the club…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-529538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}