It is seven years since Brendan Rodgers was sacked by Liverpool and a prominent newspaper columnist pointed the finger squarely at Michael Edwards, their technical director at the time. Edwards was described as having a “cosy relationship” with Liverpool’s Fenway Sports Group owners, “tapping away” at his laptop in an “air-conditioned office” at the club’s Melwood training ground as he spearheaded a data-driven approach to recruitment which had caused a rupture with the departing manager. Edwards offered no public reply at the time, instead continuing his work in private, but there was a light-hearted nod to that now-infamous criticism when he announced he would be leaving his role at the end of the campaign back in November. “Even writing those words seems a bit surreal,” Edwards said in a statement, “but at the end of this season I will pack up my laptop and leave my office at the AXA Training Centre for the last time.” Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video p...