Premier League leaders Liverpool have mentioned goodbye to Mads Jorgensen, a scout who joined them in 2011 and made a big effect within the switch market.
Liverpool have robust associations with Scandinavia each amongst Reds supporters and within the enjoying workers, and 45-year-old Jorgensen is known to have cultivated that hyperlink in his time on the membership.
Former Eliteserien participant Jorgensen is a Copenhagen-based Dane and will probably be working nearer to residence after becoming a member of Molde, the previous Norwegian champions , who missed out on a European place by ending fifth within the 2024 season.
Liverpool scout heads again to Scandinavia
Molde received two league titles underneath former Manchester United participant Ole Gunnar Solskjaer (Picture credit score: Getty Photos)
Molde, now managed by former Norway head coach Per-Mathias Hogmo after he returned to Northern Europe from a spell in Japan with Urawa Crimson Diamonds, introduced Jorgensen’s arrival this week.
“He has been a key participant in figuring out and scouting expertise for one of many world’s largest golf equipment,” reads Molde’s assertion. “Now he returns to Scandinavia to affix our bold scouting crew.”
Liverpool and Scandinavia share a proud historical past (Picture credit score: Alamy)
“This additionally marks the primary signing for our new sporting director, Ole Jakob Valla Strandhagen, who has been clear about his want to construct on Molde’s proud custom of participant growth.
“Jorgensen will work intently with the remainder of the membership’s scouting crew to search out the celebrities of tomorrow.”
Jorgensen is known to have been instrumental in Liverpool’s Scandinavian scouting operation, persevering with the high-quality traditions of the membership within the area, although the primary crew switch exercise in his time at Anfield has been centered elsewhere.
He was introduced in quickly after his enjoying profession was ended by damage and has been a part of a scouting crew that’s labored on acquisitions from throughout Europe and past, in addition to figuring out a few of the most promising younger expertise throughout England.
That can stand Jorgensen in good stead as he and Standhagen search to construct a pipeline of participant growth that places Molde again in rivalry on the high of Norwegian soccer.
Molde didn’t end outdoors the highest two in Eliteserien between 2017 and 2022, profitable the league twice so as to add to 3 titles in 4 years – two underneath Ole Gunnar Solskjaer – within the period of Tippeligaen.
The following seasons have been much less sort to the membership. They completed fifth in each 2023 and 2024, trying in on the title race from the skin as Bodo/Glimt continued their rise and bagged their third and fourth Eliteserien championships.
