Lawro supports Klopp for Liverpool job

Jürgen Klopp is the odds-on favourite to become the new Liverpool manager, after Brendan Rodgers was sacked yesterday.

Ancelotti has managed at AC Milan, Real Madrid, Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain among others, and is now in the United Kingdom after flying into London from Italy.

Jurgen Klopp has been linked with the position he has vacated as well as former Chelsea boss Carlo Ancelotti.

“If it was me I would go for Klopp ahead of Ancelotti”.

“I don’t think Brendan could say he hasn’t had enough money to spend – almost £300m – and very few of those players have gone on now”. Forget talking about the title.

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“As soon as it’s going on a downward spiral for a manager after their initial success, playing well, winning trophies it’s never come back”, he explained.

“The one worry for Liverpool’s owners is: would Ancelotti or Klopp come now, in the circumstances that are at the club now, where you have the politics inside the club”.

Addressing the challenge facing the owners, Carragher said on Sky Sports: “They’ve made a lot of decisions since they’ve come that haven’t worked”.

The 42-year-old Rodgers took Liverpool to the brink of its first English title in 24 years in the 2013-14 season before losing out to Manchester City. I’ve got a feeling that he would be the ideal fit for them.

As they did with Rafael Benitez, Roy Hodgson and Kenny Dalglish in recent years, Liverpool’s owners are now footing the bill for another lavish managerial pay-off, but they only have themselves to blame.

Lawro wrote for BBC Sport: “Liverpool need a manager who is big enough to handle the pressure, without thinking he is bigger than the club”. Rodgers provided the club an identity as players like Jamie Carragher, Steven Gerrard, Luis Suarez, and Raheem Sterling departed.

“I think he could walk into Anfield and the fans would like that”.

“He’s got all the credibility, he’s a fantastic man-manager”.

“I always thought of sacking someone so early in the season as something clubs like Newcastle or Tottenham do – so I don’t like that – but there was a sense of inevitability about it in the end”.

“The situation that Liverpool find themselves in now, it’s not just for Brendan, this has been going on for a long time – even when I was there”, he said.

That FSG lost faith Rodgers is the man to eke out that improvement speaks volumes, especially when the strike partnership of Christian Benteke and Daniel Sturridge, upon whom the manager would have banked on carrying the team forward, has been in tandem for just 45 minutes this term. There was the disastrous signing of Mario Balotelli a year ago, a semifinal loss in the FA Cup to Aston Villa was underscored by a 1-5 record to end the Premier League season, including a 6-1 thrashing at the hands of Stoke.