Jamie Carragher thinks Xabi Alonso will succeed Jurgen Klopp at Liverpool after evaluating the Spanish supervisor’s profession to these of Jose Mourinho and Klopp.
The 42-year-old is presently the favourite to interchange Klopp, who declared he can be leaving the function following a stellar nine-year tenure at Anfield.
After becoming a member of Anfield in 2004, Alonso performed for 5 years and have become an important a part of Rafael Benitez’s Champions League successful group in 2005.
Since taking on as supervisor of Bayer Leverkusen in 2022, Alonso has turned a relegation threatened group to doubtlessly a league successful group. The Spaniard’s group leads the Bundesliga standings forward of Bayern Munich and will lastly turn into the group to finish Bayern’s dominance in Germany.
With a 3-0 victory in opposition to championship rivals Bayern on Saturday, Leverkusen prolonged their successful streak to 31 video games throughout all competitions and took a five-point benefit atop the Bundesliga standings.
“We’re going to take a look at it as a result of I believe there’s a fantastic likelihood he’ll turn into the subsequent Liverpool supervisor, he appears the standout favorite. Once you consider the nice managers and the place they begin, a variety of them do one thing fairly outstanding at possibly a decrease stage,” Carragher stated on Monday Evening Soccer.
“You consider what Jose did at FC Porto, successful a Champions League there, you consider Jurgen Klopp, successful two titles with Borussia Dortmund and now I consider Xabi Alonso and if really achieves what it seems to be like their favourites now to attain – to win a Bundesliga – and the consequence that they’d on the weekend, I believe will probably be actually insightful to really see, if he’s within the Premier League subsequent season, what’s his approach of enjoying? How does he go about it and the way would it not be completely different to Jurgen Klopp and his Liverpool group?”
Main the Premier League in the meanwhile, Liverpool have superior to the spherical of 16 within the FA Cup and Europa League and can play Chelsea within the League Cup ultimate later this month.
