The Reds’ new U21 head coach is coming off a four-year stint with Wales which included a trip to the 2022 World Cup.
Liverpool today have announced the signing of former Wales national team manager Rob Page as the new head coach of the U21 team, where he will replace long-serving Liverpool youth coach Barry Lewtas after his departure this summer.
Page arrives at the club with a very strong resume that includes the four years he spent with the Welsh national team, from 2020 through 2024, a stint that included a trip to the 2022 World Cup. It was the country’s first World Cup appearance since 1958.
It was also something of a high water mark under Page, and their group stage exit there was followed by a disappointing showing in the Nations League that saw them relegated to the B Group and then fail to qualify for the upcoming Euros.
Before Wales, Page managed a pair of League One sides in Port Vale and Northampton Town in the third tier of English football. The 50-year-old Llwynypia native also spent time as Wales’ U21 head coach before becoming the senior manager.
In his playing days, Page was a centre half who racked up 550 games for six clubs, making stops at Chesterfield, Huddersfield Town, Coventry City, Cardiff City, and Sheffield United after rising through the ranks and breaking through with Watford.
Liverpool’s youth teams were seen as having underperformed last season, and the club and Lewtas—a coach in Liverpool’s system since 2013—parted ways at the end of it with the manager saying he would next seek a job managing a senior side.