The person who will lead Liverpool for the upcoming season in lieu of Jurgen Klopp is the subject of ongoing rumors.
Xabi Alonso, a former midfielder for the Reds who has shown promise leading Bundesliga side Bayer Leverkusen this season, has taken himself out of the running. Arne Slot of Feyenoord is the new favorite, although other contenders include German national team coach Julian Nagelsmann, Roberto De Zerbi of Brighton, and Ruben Amorim of Sporting CP.
But the list of important responsibilities that whoever takes over Klopp’s position at Anfield will have to deal with as soon as they are chosen. The following five items are going to be at the top of the next Liverpool manager’s priority list. equilibrium in the backroom Pep
Lijnders, the Dutch coach who has been instrumental in Liverpool’s success under Klopp in recent seasons, is highly regarded for his tactical and developmental work on the fields at the club’s Kirkby training facility.
Although Lijnders was initially employed in 2014 by Klopp’s predecessor, Brendan Rodgers, he continued to work for the German manager. And aside from a temporary return to his native country in 2018 to take up the role of manager of NEC, he has stayed a significant figure ever since. However, Lijnders will depart the team alongside Klopp at the end of the current campaign, along with fellow assistant Peter Krawietz and development coach Vitor Matos. The club’s next manager will need to surround himself with a core group of confidants who are both equally brilliant and trustworthy. Arrange the celebrity contracts. In addition to Klopp’s impending departure, one of the major questions surrounding Liverpool is the absence of three of the team’s finest players: Mohamed Salah, Virgil van Dijk, and Next season, Trent Alexander-Arnold will be going into his last year under each deal. The new manager would need to persuade his best players to recommit, working with Michael Edwards—who had rejoined Anfield as CEO of Fenway Sports Group—and Richard Hughes, the team’s new sporting director hired from Bournemouth. The Saudi Pro League has shown a great deal of interest in Salah in the past, and this summer, the Egyptian will undoubtedly be the target of similar courtship. Salah is 32 in June, so the Liverpool management needs to start thinking about what would happen without him. However, the Reds would be happy to hold onto their record-breaking goal scorer under the appropriate conditions. In any case, The issue of his upcoming free agency must be resolved or it will cloud the 2024–25 season. For Alexander-Arnold and Van Dijk, the situation is distinct. Despite the fact that the Dutch center back is nearly a year older than Salah, given his job, he may still have many of his best years ahead of him. Additionally, Alexander-Arnold is a bright example of a local boy who was raised in an academy and has blossomed into a superstar at Anfield. Both need to be kept.
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The next Liverpool manager will then be able to focus on the fringe players in the group he inherits after determining the future of his aforementioned stars.
He has to assess if the experience and influence of veterans Thiago Alcantara, Joel Matip, and goalkeeper Adrian—all of whom have contracts expiring at the end of the season and may already be gone—are sufficient to keep them in the team despite the fact that their injuries and advancing age have caused them to fall down the hierarchy. In addition, the new manager has to decide whether to be more patient with the development of young players like Harvey Elliott, Curtis Jones, and Conor Bradley and wait for upgrades in the transfer market, or whether to put these players in important roles right away.
Liverpool attracted attention for their play under the German coach because of their intensity and directness as they adopted Klopp’s high-intensity counter-pressing strategy fast. Over time, the Reds underwent changes as Klopp adjusted his team composition and strategy to meet Premier League requirements and contend with Manchester City at the top of the table. The dilemma for whoever takes over for Klopp is how soon to attempt to impose their own vision on Merseyside.