The field of potential Jurgen Klopp replacements as Liverpool manager was unchanged for a few months but a shock sacking has shifted everything around.
These are the 10 favourites to become the next permanent Liverpool manager ranked by best odds available at oddschecker.com. The names themselves are definitely not a reflection of our actual thoughts.
10) Rafael Benitez
At this early stage it is probably worth pointing out that the actual James Milner is 11th in the betting. Benitez reinforced his Liverpool manager credentials by tanking Everton and he remains both popular and visible on Merseyside, having built up an emotional connection with the club over a six-year spell.
But a little bit has changed since he last occupied the Anfield hotseat in 2010 and the Spaniard’s desperate search for another Premier League post is eminently unlikely to take him back to his first.
9) Brendan Rodgers
Liverpool sacked Brendan Rodgers so long ago that when the live Sky Sports studio reaction of tactile pundits Thierry Henry and Jamie Carragher went viral, the innumerable clips were published on Vine. It was a simpler time, when Tancredi Palmeri and Andy Tate shaped the narrative of the entire sport.
The decision to part with Rodgers was made in a haze of transfer committee scepticism and on the back of five 1-1 draws in his last six games; Liverpool managed to score first in each, which is a trait they would not mind rediscovering over seven years later, but the red writing had been scrawled on the wall since an underwhelming 2014/15 season culminated in a 6-1 thrashing at Stoke.
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.”
The German will hope such a time is not imminent now but Rodgers is unlikely to be at the front of the queue of replacements either way.
8) Graham Potter
In the multiverse of Premier League managerial madness, there are alternative timelines in which each of the Big Six gave Graham Potter his first seat at the top table.
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