The scale of Liverpool’s challenge in appointing their next manager cannot be underestimated.
Liverpool’s hierarchy understand to the highest degree that there isn’t another Jurgen Klopp out there. They are not interested in a ‘lite’ version of him either; someone who can almost play the same way, someone who can kind of develop talent well, someone the raw data says is the closest thing.
Liverpool know that appointing a new manager – the right fit for the future – is not a search for Klopp 2.0. That would be a wasted, failed, frankly ridiculous task.
But they are also aware that whoever succeeds the German needs to connect with the supporters, the city, and the spirit of the club. As one former member of staff, who worked closely with Klopp and was privy to databases of analysis, put it: “There are a lot of good managers out there. There are not a lot of…
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