Liverpool have promoted Barry Lewtas to Under-23s manager as replacement for Neil Critchley. The Reds have reshuffled their youth ranks with underage football halted amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
And Lewtas, who joined the club as Under-12s boss in 2013, and has made his way through the ranks, now replaces Critchley after he was appointed Blackpool boss in March.
Lewtas has been Under-18s boss since replacing Steven Gerrard when the Anfield idol took charge of Rangers in 2018. Lewtas’ role with the U18s is to be taken by Marc Bridge-Wilkinson, who will step up from the Under-16s.
Lewtas, highly-regarded in the halls of Melwood for the work he has done at the club’s Kirkby academy base, previously worked at Wigan and Bolton.