NewsLiverpool confirm four new coaching staff appointments
Four new members of Andoni Iraola’s coaching staff at Liverpool have now been confirmed.
Tommy Elphick and Shaun Cooper join the Reds as first-team coaches ahead of the 2026-27 season.
Pablo de la Torre arrives as an assistant coach and Tom Webber has been appointed as first-team tactical analyst.
All four make the move to Merseyside having been part of Iraola’s backroom team throughout his tenure at previous club AFC Bournemouth from 2023 to 2026, which culminated in the Cherries’ highest-placed Premier League finish - sixth last term.
Former centre-back Elphick made more than 400 appearances in English football during his own playing career, including spells with Brighton & Hove Albion, Bournemouth and Aston Villa.
He was Cherries captain for two promotions as they rose through the lower divisions to reach the top flight for the first time in the club’s history in 2015.
After retiring as a player in 2021, Elphick began his coaching journey with Bournemouth’s academy.
He was promoted to first-team duties by then Cherries boss Gary O’Neil during the 2022-23 campaign, before supporting Iraola across his three years on the south coast.
Cooper made more than 200 appearances for Bournemouth during his professional career, also skippering the club in his seven seasons there from 2005 to 2012.
A versatile defender and midfielder, he hung up his boots in 2017 and returned to the Cherries to become development squad head coach the following year.
Cooper stepped up to a senior position at the club under O’Neil at the same time as Elphick and he too remained part of the set-up when Iraola took charge.
De La Torre, meanwhile, will work with the Reds’ new head coach at a fourth different club.
Their paths first crossed in 2018-19 at AEK Larnaca for one season, before reuniting for the entirety of Iraola’s reign with Rayo Vallecano from 2020 to 2023.
De La Torre then followed Iraola to Bournemouth in 2023 and will now continue that working relationship at Liverpool.
Webber takes up his new role with the Reds having completed a decade of service in performance analysis for Bournemouth.
After gaining experience via spells at Birmingham City, the Cherries and Leicester City, he became first-team performance analyst at Vitality Stadium in the summer of 2016.
Webber then rose to senior first-team performance analyst there in 2024.