JAMIE CARRAGHER has tipped a former Liverpool team-mate to be the best man to switch Jurgen Klopp.
The soccer world was shocked yesterday when the German, 56, dropped the bombshell that he can be leaving Liverpool on the finish of the season.
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Klopp reworked Liverpool again into certainly one of Europe’s most feared groups since taking cost in October 2015 and can lovingly be remembered as the person who ended their 30-year title drought.
The ex-Dortmund boss additionally led the Reds to 3 Champions League finals – tasting success in 2019.
Klopp knowledgeable Liverpool chiefs of his determination to step down final NOVEMBER however gamers and employees solely realized of his exit yesterday.
And the Anfield membership’s chief government Billy Hogan has confirmed that the method to discover a substitute will begin instantly.
Former Liverpool midfielder Xabi Alonso, 42, is the favorite with bookmakers to develop into their new boss.
The Spaniard is at present answerable for Bayer Leverkusen, who’re high of the Bundesliga, and his previous hyperlinks with the Kop make him an apparent alternative.
Alonso spent 5 years at Liverpool and received the FA Cup and Champions League taking part in alongside Carragher.
Now his work in Germany has left his former team-mate satisfied that he has what it takes to take excessive job at Anfield.
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Carragher instructed Sky Sports activities: “We’re shedding one of many biggest managers in world soccer, one of many biggest managers Liverpool have ever had and it’s a unhappy day, little question.
“However in the identical breath, we’ve acquired to be wanting ahead to the brand new man coming in, get behind him and help him. Invoice Shankly left, Bob Paisley left, Kenny Dalglish left and Liverpool strikes on.
“You may’t get away from Xabi Alonso as a result of he’s so revered at Liverpool already for what he did as a participant – he’s a Champions League winner, held himself with actual class, he’s a World Cup winner.
“Proper now, the job he’s carried out at Bayer Leverkusen, he seems just like the brightest younger factor in European soccer. It definitely makes him the front-runner.”
Alonso was requested straight concerning the Liverpool job on Friday, to which he replied: “Hypothesis is regular, my focus is right here on Bayer Leverkusen.
“I’m very comfortable at Leverkusen with my gamers for the time being. [It was a] massive shock in Liverpool, in fact — for what Jurgen did in Liverpool I’ve nice respect and admiration. “I’m actually comfortable right here. I’m having fun with my work right here. I’m feeling every day and every sport is a problem. I’m on a wonderful journey in Leverkusen. The subsequent one, I do not know.
“I’m fascinated by the place I’m proper now. I’m in a fantastic place and I’m having fun with. Saturday is what actually issues. I do not actually care what’s going to occur sooner or later proper now.”
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