Liverpool’s U23 coach, Neil Critchley has joined Blackpool as their new manager.

Critchley, who joined Liverpool in 2013 after six years as academy director at his hometown club Crewe, who was in charge of Liverpool’s first-team for two-cup ties earlier this season when Jurgen Klopp was away, has agreed a contract to become the League One club’s head coach that runs until the end of the 2022/23 campaign.

 “I am absolutely delighted to join Blackpool,” Critchley told the official club website.

“I can’t wait to get started, I’m really looking forward to the weeks and months ahead, meeting the players, working on the grass, developing the team and meeting some of the supporters.

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“The time I’ve had at Liverpool has been truly special. I’ve been incredibly well supported there from Alex Inglethorpe, the academy manager, and all the staff.

“It’s a truly special football club and it’s the people that make the football club the place that it is.

“It would have had to have taken something equally as special, if not more, for me to even think about leaving.

“But from the conversations I’ve had here, I got a really good feeling about the people, where they want the club to go and how they want it to grow.”

Liverpool youngsters under his stewardship beat Everton in the FA Cup sixth round.

The 41-year-old spent four years as U18s coach at Anfield before being taking charge of the U23s in 2017.