Liverpool legend Phil Thompson believes that Pep Lijnders is the proper man or woman to take over from Jurgen Klopp. According to Thompson, Lijnders may want to make a smooth transition into the role subsequent season.
The Reds are on the hunt for a new manager after Klopp introduced on January 26 that he would be stepping down at the cease of the season. The club’s owners, Fenway Sports Group, have delivered in former Liverpool wearing director Michael Edwards to aid with the decision, however they’re keeping their thoughts underneath wraps.
Former Liverpool midfielder Xabi Alonso used to be firstly tipped as the favourite due to his incredible work at Bayer Leverkusen, but the German crew are eager to hold onto him. Lijnders, who will additionally be leaving with Klopp at the give up of the season, has said he is not in the strolling to replace him. However, Thompson would like to see him stay and step up.”I don’t think he’d [Lijnders] have too many objectors [to change Klopp], Liverpool fans, if they understand sufficient about the club and the humans at the back of the scenes and the back-up staff for Jurgen,” the ex-Reds centre-back shared on talkSPORT.
“Pep Lijnders is a super educate and if you watch him on the coaching ground, he is full of it, full of power and ideas. I would have no issues with him being it. If they introduced it I would say yes. There should be some thing else in the offing for Pep Lijnders. Whatever he does, if he goes with Klopp [or] on his own, I will wish him all the nice but if he was presented the job I would like to think Pep would have viewed it at least.”
Klopp concurs with Thompson about how exact Lijnders is. “The most influential guy in the closing years in reality in this membership used to be Pep Lijnders,” the Liverpool manager said in January, as per the Mirror. “The job he did is truly exceptional. The thought he is for me is definitely exceptional.”
But Lijnders himself appears to choose to be a supervisor someplace else. “Nobody will replace Jurgen. I was clear, to be honest, when we had the speak a long time ago for me it used to be clear and it made it simpler for me,” he explained. “We agreed to end this task together and it is the proper way to do it. They will locate a new educate with thoughts and I am excited to manage, to locate the proper club.”
Lijnders joined Liverpool in 2014 to turn out to be assistant manager and whilst he briefly left in 2018 to control NEC in his fatherland of the Netherlands, he rapidly returned. Mirror Football mentioned in the past this month that Ajax had put Lijnders on their shortlist for their next manager, alongside Manchester United boss Erik ten Hag
