Former Liverpool scout Jonathan Woodgate is full of praise for sporting director Michael Edwards.

The eight months he spent with Liverpool was the ideal bridge between hanging up his boots and taking a first-team coach's job at The Riverside, where he served Steve Agnew, Garry Monk and Tony Pulis.

"I'd always had a good relationship with Michael Edwards," Woodgate told the Daily Mail. "He was an analyst at Tottenham and I spent a lot of time in his office talking about players. He knew I had a passion for it.

"When I'd been retired for three weeks, he rang and asked what I was doing. To be honest I was bored out of my mind watching daytime TV so when he said “do you fancy it", I didn't even have to think.

"I loved my time at Liverpool. Michael runs it really well. He has turned the club round for me, who they've bought, the money received from selling players."