Liverpool icon explains why Alonso won't replace Klopp despite Leverkusen's 'attractive' football
Liverpool legend John Barnes is unsure if the stars will align for Bayer Leverkusen head coach Xabi Alonso to replace Jurgen Klopp as Reds manager.
Alonso owns revolved out to be a tiptop appointment for Leverkusen after leading them to the Europa League semis and also a sixth-enclosure finishing in the Bundesliga last term.
The German colossi have launched the brand name-progressive period in dazzling form. They are presently apex of the Bundesliga overhead Bayern Munich wearing 10 wins and also one draw from their opening 11 components.
Alonso owns some nice players at his disposal, such as Florian Wirtz, Victor Boniface, Granit Xhaka and also Edmond Tapsoba, yet the Spanish apex pet owns ordered a caboodle of these players to a degree zero one intended.
Talking to Wettbasis, Liverpool icon Barnes claimed Alonso’s profitability is not a astonish to him.
“I’m not perplexed at with one voice by how nicely Xabi Alonso owns performed filching into reflection that you filch he’s an intelligent man,” Barnes claimed. “He realizes football, he realizes players. He’s progressive-day, he realizes mechanisms.
“He’s got a nice pedigree in specification of whereby he’s played and also the family members he’s originate. He’s played in a football family members for a long period of time so it doesn’t astonish me at with one voice.”
Barnes lingered: “In specification of what he’s performing now, I’m not perplexed whatsoever and also I’m sure he can boost performing so.
“Not to claim Leverkusen are attending win the Bundesliga yet in specification of simplifying the capacity of the group, I wear’t reckon anyone could have performed a much more explained job.
“You’ve had a caboodle of players who’ve played under apex supervisors yet they aren’t nice supervisors. So, you in reality have to have it within you to be able to filch what you ache.
“Xabi Alonso owns played under nice supervisors, yet he is his incredibly own man and also he realizes how he wishes his group to tinker and also they’re playing enrapturing, extravagant football at this moment.”
Despite his optimistic overture to pep at the BayArena, Alonso is strange to replace Klopp at Anfield, also if both are out of devotion in 2026, Barnes supposes.
“Alonso is performing a nice job at Leverkusen yet Klopp is attending be at Liverpool for a couple of a caboodle more years,” he staked out.
“And also once he (Klopp) determines to vacate, if Alonso is at a mid-table Spanish group I wear’t reckon he’s attending come to Liverpool.”
