Jurgen Klopp will leave Liverpool at the end of the current season. He said that in public at the end of January, but in private, he told that to the club’s owners back in November 2023. And the Reds’ executives didn’t waste a minute since then. In fact, they contacted Bayer Leverkusen’s Xabi Alonso immediately, according to various reports. The only thing missing in those reports is his answer. Did he said yes? The Spaniard is currently on a roll with Bayer Leverkusen, with whom he doesn’t have a single defeat in 30 games, which tops all other European clubs. On the other side, is he up for such a big task?🚨 Liverpool have contacted Xabi Alonso to replace Jürgen Klopp at the end of the season. 🗣️However, the Spanish coach is fully focused on Bayer Leverkusen and hopes to lead his team to the title in the Bundesliga.(Source: @Santi_J_FM / @footmercato) pic.twitter.com/jhHJlydtCl— Transfer News Live (@DeadlineDayLive) February 7, 2024 According to other reports he is, as he has a clause in his contract which allows him to get out of Leverkusen easily, if certain clubs call. And those teams are the ones which he played for: Real Madrid, Liverpool and Bayern Munich. And there is also a reliable source which confirms that Alonso is waiting for that big opportunity. Alonso has a release clause in case his former clubs come callingThe president of Olympique de Marseille, Pablo Longoria, a Spaniard, can confirm firsthand that Alonso really decided that way. Longoria called Alonso in the summer of 2022, when Jorge Sampaoli was fired at the Velodrome.”I went to see him. He told me ‘no’ with a certain amount of elegance, the same one that graced him when he was a player. He was telling me he didn’t want to and I should have been angry. I wanted to thank him instead. You can see that his brain works at a certain speed, even then he knew which three or four clubs he wanted to train and he was ready to wait for them”, Longoria told So Foot magazine.Marseille’s president Pablo Longoria 🇪🇸revealed he met with Xabi Alonso to replace Sampaoli but Xabi turned him down with class & elegance. “You see his brain going at a certain speed, he knew exactly which 3 or 4 clubs he wanted to coach & he was prepared to wait for them” pic.twitter.com/ae6wIYodkh— Moby (@Mobyhaque1) February 5, 2024 And Liverpool knows that, so they moved in first. But the question now is, what does Xabi Alonso wants? Liverpool job doesn’t come very often and it’s open now, this May. Bayern has a coach, but Thomas Tuchel is not managing the Bavarians well, and if Alonso wins the title, that job could open for him too, also in May. The only unavailable option is Real, as Ancelotti has renewed his contract, but if Alonso wants to get more experience and wait for Madrid, he might even stay in Leverkusen for two more seasons. So far, Liverpool had a pretty good chance to get the Spaniard, he just needs to focus and decide what he wants to do. ##NAJAVA_MECA_7855183##
