Liverpool are ready to push through a deal for Louis van Gaal. The Sunday Mirror says Liverpool are on the brink of going Dutch with Van Gaal joining them as their new Director of ­Football and bringing a posse of Dutch coaches and fitness experts with him.

He is set to bring with him coach Andries Jonker, ­goal-keeping coach Frans Hoek and physio Ruud van Dyke.

All were part of the ­backroom team he put together at Bayern Munich.