These are the 10 favourites to become the next permanent Liverpool manager ranked by best odds available at10) Rafael Benitez
Jurgen Klopp dismissed the idea that Rodgers’ demise was about results when he discussed the situation in October 2019. “For the public, when a manager gets the sack, they think he lost his football brain or something. That is not how it happened,” he said. “Whatever it was I do not know, but it was not his quality as a coach. But of course, expectations and relationships, whatever, between who and who, if that does not work anymore the club has to make a decision.
It’s not exactly going to plan at Chelsea thus far, but it does feel as though they simply blinked first in dragging away Potter, who surely featured somewhere on the succession plans of the aforementioned. And probably Newcastle, too. He would have been a fit for Liverpool after a couple more years on the south coast but it is not to be.Perhaps the most incompatible choice possible, considering the sheer volume of p*ss the Argentinean boiled by daring to beat Liverpool at Anfield in March 2020.
It would be unadulterated fun and there should not be too much difficulty prising Conte away from his current job, but the two players Liverpool have signed from Juventus this century are Arthur Melo and Christian Poulsen so it just wouldn’t work.‘Liverpool report: Celtic manager Ange Postecoglu [sic] sensationally tipped to replace Jurgen Klopp,’ reads the FourFourTwo headline from October, with ‘one former Celtic man’ backing the Greek-Australian for a top Premier League job.