Friday, November 05, 2010

Liverpool Could Do With Damien Comolli Unearthing Another Two Gareth Bales

Liverpool manager Roy Hodgson hopes that the club's newly appointed director of football strategy, Damien Comolli, can unearth a couple of Gareth Bales for him.

The Frenchman was previously a director of football at Tottenham Hotspur, and is thought to have been the brains behind the signings of Bale, Luka Modric, Roman Pavlyuchenko and Dimitar Berbatov - who is now at Manchester United - among others.

And the Reds boss hopes that Comolli can produce similar results on Merseyside.

Hodgson said on the club's official website: "If it's true that Gareth Bale is a player he spotted and brought through then we'll be happy if he can produce one or two more of them for us!

"The matter of player recruitment is of vital importance to clubs today. It becomes more important every year. And in Damien Comolli we have a person who has great experience at player recruitment.

"He'll have to look very carefully at the players who are being identified and recruited for the reserve team and academy as well."

The former Fulham boss insists that he will hold discussions with Comolli to better the depth of his squad, as he feels what he currently has is inadequate for his purposes.

He said: "I'm not sure our strength in depth is as good as it needs to be and that will be a very important conversation we'll be having in the coming days: what can be done to make our squad a bit stronger than it is?

"If you compare us to some of the squads we'd like to be competing against, theirs go a bit deeper."

However, the gaffer complimented some of his younger players for rising to the challenge, pinpointing diminutive midfielder Jay Spearing for some praise.

He added: "But those who have been thrown in have kept our heads above water.

"Take a guy like Jay Spearing. I think he's played in every single Europa League game so far. It's good to know that people like that are getting a chance to show what they can do and play regular football."

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