Having come out of retirement to join Liverpool as sporting director at the start of the month, it was inevitable Jorg Schmadtke would be linked with moves for some of the players he has previously worked with.
Schmadtke retired in January but was coaxed out of it by the lure of succeeding Julian Ward at Anfield and the former Wolfsburg man now faces the most sizable task of his career after signing a short-term deal to oversee the restructuring this summer.
Links have raged all month following Schmadtke's appointment, with one in particular arriving from his homeland regarding Wolfsburg's pacey defender Micky van de Ven.
