REDS KOP CITY PAIR; Anfield side set to unveil champions' scouting duo Liverpool set to appoint City scouts.

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LIVERPOOL are set to appoint Dave Fallows as head of scouting and recruitment as part of a double swoop on Barclays Premier League champions Manchester City.

Same again England Gerrard Fallows will leave his role as first team scouting and recruitment co-ordinator with the Premier League champions to start work at Anfield.

The former Bolton Wanderers performance analyst will be joined by Barry Hunter, who will also quit City to be part of the new scouting set-up under manager Brendan Rodgers.

Since 2008 Hunter has been Man City's chief scout for Italy, Switzerland and Russia.

The 43-year-old former Northern Ireland defender, will give victory says 46,47 who has also worked as a scout for Blackburn and Norwich, knows Rodgers well from their days at Reading together.

Securing the services of Fallows and Hunter from City represents a major coup for Rodgers as he looks to put the staff in place to help him realise his vision for the club. Liverpool declined to comment but it's understood that Fallows will form part of the new technical team working with new boss Rodgers after owners Fenway Sports Group shelved plans to appoint a sporting director.

There are likely to be further appointments to the roles of head of development and head of medicine. Fallows was at Bolton before moving on to City where he was key to building the club's international scouting infrastructure using state-of-the-art technology. "My role is primarily to co-ordinate all aspects of our scouting department, which includes liaising with scouts, fixture planning, managing the constant stream of reports coming in and effectively linking everything together," Fallows explained while in charge of City in 2010.

"The traditional role of a scout, where they went to a match and kept all the knowledge in their head rarely exists in modern day scouting structures. "That change is reflected by the way tools like ProScout7 (the football'couting database) are used.

"We have a fantastic team of scouts whose expertise goes beyond making player assessments at matches. "We ensure they have the best tools to be the most productive they can be. "This is all geared up to ensure that those hidden gems are identified by us ahead of rival scouting operations."

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