Right, but when Beale came back when there were few options for him at the club as all of our coaching positions were full. Gerrard took over as U18 manager and Critchley moved up to U23 manager. I’m not sure heading up youth operations at Rangers would be seen as a lesser role then what he did in Sau Paulo or at Liverpool but more a completely different role with different responsibilities. Taking over youth operations at Rangers would be more in line with what Inglethorpe does for us.
If Pep does indeed come back to Liverpool then you would think, at the very least, he would be offered his old role back which hasn’t been filled yet. And, if Klopp rates him as highly as he seems to, and there is an opening as assistant manager at the club, it seems like a good fit for Pep to take.
My point was more - don't make any definitive conclusions based on the limited information we have available to us. We don't know what is going on in Beale's head. For example, for a man with Beale's skillset, we wouldn't have been the only club that could employ him having to almost make a job to do so. You could equally argue having moved away from youth coaching and got a taste for the next step up, he got little job satisfaction and would prefer to stick at what he enjoys and feels he is good at. And doing that somewhere he feels comfortable after a hectic few months in Brazil.
Maybe similar has happened with Ljinders. Maybe he re-evaluates his coaching career to date, asses what aspect he enjoys the most and realises he would like to coach a team but at youth level again, like he did with Neves group at Porto and the U18 group here.
Or maybe he wants to come back to the role he had. Or even move into the assistant role as you said. They are all options, some more likely than others. But I wouldn't rule anything out. There is the human aspect in all of this - in people making decisions that they feel will best satisfy them even if from the outside looking in, they make little sense, logically speaking.