Liverpool players agree on Klopp successor

Published March 17th, 2024 - 10:28 GMT
Liverpool's Dutch assistant manager Pepijn Lijnders (L) speaks with Liverpool's Egyptian midfielder Mohamed Salah following the 2019 FIFA Club World Cup semi-final football match between Mexico's Monterrey and England's Liverpool at the Khalifa International Stadium in the Qatari capital Doha on December 18, 2019. Liverpool will face Flamengo in the Final of the FIFA Club World Cup on December 21. / AFP / KARIM JAAFAR
Liverpool's Dutch assistant manager Pepijn Lijnders (L) speaks with Liverpool's Egyptian midfielder Mohamed Salah following the 2019 FIFA Club World Cup semi-final football match between Mexico's Monterrey and England's Liverpool at the Khalifa International Stadium in the Qatari capital Doha on December 18, 2019. Liverpool will face Flamengo in the Final of the FIFA Club World Cup on December 21. / AFP / KARIM JAAFAR

Liverpool's players are reportedly hoping to see Pepijn "Pep" Lijnders succeed Jurgen Klopp as team boss.

Lijnders who is Klopp's assistant manager is set to leave at the end of the season along with the German coach.

However, pundit Alan Brazil spoke to talkSPORT, and said: "I am told the [Liverpool] players wouldn't mind the number two, Pep taking over."

Former Liverpool striker Dean Saunders revealed that he had heard the same rumors as well.

Lijnders was hired in 2014 to manage the U16s at Liverpool’s Academy, before progressing into the first-team set-up. 

He briefly left the Reds to take over at NEC Nijmegen before returning to Anfield in 2018.

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