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Pep link-up! Ex-Liverpool assistant Pep Lijnders agrees to join Pep Guardiola's staff at Man City in backroom shake-up a year after ending Jurgen Klopp partnership

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<p>Guardiola is reshaping his backroom team after an under-par 2024-25 campaign and Lijnders is set to be among the fresh faces heading to the Etihad Stadium, report <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6391086/2025/05/30/pep-lijnders-manchester-city/" target="_blank"><em>The Athletic</em></a>. The Dutchman spent nine-and-a-half years at Anfield across two spells under Brendan Rodgers and Jurgen Klopp but now joins their domestic rivals.</p>

WHAT HAPPENED?

<p>Lijnders departed Liverpool with Klopp last summer, taking over as head coach at Austrian side RB Salzburg. <a href="https://www.goal.com/en-gb/lists/jurgen-klopp-former-assistant-sacked-after-six-months-red-bull-salzburg-pepijn-lijnders-exit/blt2856b9ecbac16a73" target="_blank">He was sacked in December after a poor start to the season</a>, however, and now heads back into coaching underneath a manager.</p>

THE BIGGER PICTURE

<p>Lijnders held talks with Norwich over their vacant head coach position earlier this month, according to the report, but the <a href="https://www.goal.com/en-gb/lists/pep-guardiola-juanma-lillo-to-leave-man-city/blt92448ffd9b5e2a7f" target="_blank">departures of Juanma Lillo</a>, Carlos Vicens and Inigo Dominguez from the Etihad coaching staff have seen the Dutchman head back to the top of the Premier League instead.</p>

DID YOU KNOW?

<p>City are set to kick off their Club World Cup campaign against Wydad AC in Philadelphia next month before taking on Al Ain and Juventus in the group stage. </p>

WHAT NEXT FOR MANCHESTER CITY?

Pep link-up! Ex-Liverpool assistant Pep Lijnders agrees to join Pep Guardiola's staff at Man City in backroom shake-up a year after ending Jurgen Klopp partnership | Goal.com

Former Liverpool assistant Pep Lijnders is set to join Pep Guardiola&apos;s coaching staff at Manchester City just a year after leaving the Reds.

Pep link-up! Ex-Liverpool assistant Pep Lijnders agrees to join Pep Guardiola&apos;s staff at Man City in backroom shake-up a year after ending Jurgen Klopp partnership

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