Premier League leaders Liverpool said goodbye to Mads Jorgensen, a scout who joined the team in 2011 and made a big impact on the transfer market.
Liverpool have strong associations with Scandinavia among both Reds fans and playing staff, and Jorgensen, 45, is believed to have nurtured this bond during his time at the club.
Former Eliteserien player Jorgensen is from Copenhagen and will work closer to home after joining Molde, former Norwegian championwho lost his place in Europe, taking fifth place in the 2024 season.
A Liverpool scout returns to Scandinavia
Molde, currently managed by former Norwegian head coach Per-Mathias Hogmo after returning to Northern Europe after a spell in Japan with Urawa Red Diamonds, announced Jorgensen’s arrival this week.
“He played a key role in identifying and spotting talent at one of the biggest clubs in the world,” Molde said in a statement. “Now he returns to Scandinavia to join our ambitious scout team.”
“This is also the first signing for our new sporting director, Ole Jakob Valli Strandhagen, who has made clear his desire to build on Molde’s proud tradition of player development.
“Jorgensen will work closely with the rest of the scout club to find the stars of tomorrow.”
Jorgensen is believed to have played a key role in Liverpool’s Scandinavian scouting activities, continuing the club’s great traditions in the region, although his early transfer activities during his time at Anfield were focused elsewhere.
He was brought in shortly after his playing career ended due to injury and was part of a scouting team that worked on signings from across Europe and beyond, as well as identifying the most promising young talent across England.
This will reflect well on Jorgensen as he and Standhagen look to build a player development plan that will get Molde back to the top of Norwegian football.
Between 2017 and 2022, Molde finished outside the top two in the Eliteserien, winning the league twice and adding three league titles in four years – two under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer – in the Tippeligaen era.
The following seasons were less kind to the club. In both 2023 and 2024 they finished fifth, watching the title race from the outside as Bodo/Glimt continued their career and won their third and fourth Eliteserien championships.
