Alan Shearer has shared his thoughts on the ‘intriguing’ state of affairs Liverpool finds itself in as Xabi Alonso remains the favourite to be named the club’s new manager.
Liverpool is on the hunt for a new boss as Jürgen Klopp will be stepping down at the end of this season. Klopp has had an spectacular run due to the fact 2015, bagging the Premier League, Champions League, FA Cup and Carabao Cup titles.
Klopp’s crew is additionally in the jogging for the title with simply 10 video games left this campaign. However, there will be a new face leading the team from subsequent season.Currently, Alonso is the top choice. He has led Bayer Leverkusen to the pinnacle of the Bundesliga this season barring dropping a game. But even even though Alonso has robust ties to Anfield, Shearer thinks it might not be handy to tightly closed him.
Shearer told The Athletic: “The clearly intriguing component is Liverpool, Bayern Munich and Barcelona are looking for a new supervisor ahead of subsequent season and I don’t suppose they’re the solely large jobs that will turn out to be handy this summer.
“With the job that Xabi Alonso is doing this season at Bayer Leverkusen, he’ll have a pick out of jobs if he needs them. That’s the apparent link that masses of people have already made, given Alonso performed for Liverpool.”
Bayern have made no secret of their wish to deliver Alonso to the Allianz Arena. The former midfielder has instructed Leverkusen 10 factors ahead of their title opponents and Bayern’s honorary president Uli Hoeness has admitted the giants are ‘working’ on signing Alonso.
“He’s [Alonso’s] established that he can be a instruct for the large time. Clubs like Liverpool, Real Madrid, Leverkusen and FC Bayern are working on it,” Hoeness told German information outlet Ran Sport closing week.
“There are hardly ever any coaches who come into query who are currently free, who don’t have a job or who are on sabbatical. It’s now not so effortless to tell them that FC Bayern is the measure of all things.
But Leverkusen are keen to keep Alonso, with his contract walking for any other two years. And Alonso himself has insisted he has no plans to go away the BayArena, with his full focal point on Leverkusen’s title push.
“At the moment, I am actually completely happy here. I enjoy my work right here and feel that it’s given me a challenge. We are on an intense but beautiful trip right here in Leverkusen and I’m trying to provide my high-quality to help my players be prepared for the subsequent thing,” he said in January.
“To be honest, I am no longer in that moment, to assume about the subsequent step. I am thinking about the place I am proper now. I think I am in a extraordinary location and am enjoying it. I assume it is the proper vicinity and all that I can say. What’s going to manifest in the future, I don’t know. I do not sincerely care at the second
