Liverpool will hold talks with Jürgen Klopp in the next few days with the former Borussia Dortmund manager their favoured candidate to succeed Brendan Rodgers. “It has been both an honour and a privilege to manage one of the game’s great clubs for the last three years”, Rodgers, 42, said.
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The immediate availability of both Klopp and Ancelotti makes them strong favourites for the job, with Klopp being strongly tipped as favourite for the post.
The German coach led Dortmund to two Bundesliga titles and a UEFA Champions League final, and many seem him as the ideal replacement for Rodgers given his passionate coaching style on the sidelines, plus his track record of cultivating exciting soccer and building a successful squad from a nucleus of talented youngsters.
Brendan Rodgers’ reaction to Liverpool results was “always a little bit about him”, according to former Reds defender Mark Lawrenson.
Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.theeagleonline.com.ng as the source. “The fans stay with everything behind the club and this is what Jurgen Klopp likes and what he needs”, the BBC quoted Effenberg as saying at the ASPIRE4SPORT conference in Berlin. “When you think about it logically, Ancelotti’s last three jobs were Chelsea, PSG and Real Madrid”, he said.
“I think that a younger and potentially hungrier manager in Jurgen Klopp would be the best fit for Liverpool in their current predicament”.
‘Brendan has dedicated his entire professional life to developing players and teams, and I am certain that with his knowledge and passion for the game it won’t be too long before he finds a new challenge’.
If Dortmund were “also-rans” pre-Klopp, is that how Liverpool see themselves now?
“Carlo Ancelotti is also in the running”.
Former midfielder Danny Murphy, however, favours the experience of Ancelotti. They have more spending power that anyone else out there.
“Liverpool have won one Carling Cup in 10 years”.
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“Liverpool are becoming Tottenham, think they’re a big club but the real big clubs are not too anxious about them – who they buy, what they’re going to do – that’s the situation as it’s become for Liverpool, even when I was there at the end”.
