Klopp the favourite to take over at Liverpool

“The fact they’ve done it today – when there are lots of other clubs struggling and looking at managers – makes me feel that it might happen”.

Carragher said: “I think with either of those coming to Liverpool, the Liverpool supporters would be ecstatic: Carlo Ancelotti a Champions League victor three times, and we know what Klopp did at Borussia Dortmund”.

Jurgen Klopp has emerged as the firm favourite to take over as manager of Liverpool after the sensational sacking of Brendan Rodgers.

“If it was me, I would go for Klopp ahead of Ancelotti”, Carragher said on Super Sunday.

That is of course a massive tick against Ancelotti when it comes to his pedigree at several different clubs, and also in the English game, but what doesn’t seem to have been considered is the recent back surgery the Italian underwent during the summer which, according to the Guardian, meant he turned down job offers from elsewhere. Rodgers had been under a lot of pressure since the start of the season, to get his team back in the top of the league standings, as well as be successful in European competitions.

Former defender Mark Lawrenson also backed Klopp to take the reigns as he wrote in his BBC Sport column: “Whoever it is will have to buy into the mindset of the American owners – they want success, but their model is to try to get that by signing younger players they can train up and, sometimes, sell on”. He’s been there three and a bit years, they haven’t won a trophy and they’ve played Champions League football once, that’s not good enough for Liverpool.

“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”.

“I’d have preferred them to do it (sack Rodgers) in the summer”.

Lawrenson added in the Liverpool Echo: “What he did at Borussia Dortmund was special and if he can get Liverpool playing that way, the fans will absolutely love him“.

“Carlo Ancelotti is also in the running”.

“Reading the CVs and what they have done and where they have done it and how many times they have done it, it is a no-brainer really”, he told talkSPORT. “But Klopp is a much better fit for the FSG model”. And, ultimately, he has done it here already with Chelsea.

“Rodgers had four very winnable home games recently – newly promoted Norwich, League Two Carlisle, relegation battlers Aston Villa and Swiss side Sion – and he only won one”.