Klopp approved his replacement at Liverpool: you won't believe who the coach is

Liverpool are the best team in England right now. No other club has managed to reach this point in the season competing in all four competitions and with a chance to be champions in all of them. In the Premier League they are top of the table, ahead of Manchester City and Arsenal, in the Carabao Cup they will play the final against Chelsea next week and in both the FA Cup and the UEFA Europa League they are in the round of 16.

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But whatever happens in each of those tournaments, The Reds know that this season will be the end of an era. Jurgen Klopp will step down as manager this summer, bringing to an end a successful 9-year run in which they won the biggest titles in Europe and England. With him perhaps some key players such as Mohamed Salah and Virgil Van Dijk will also leave, so a rebuilding job will be necessary.

That task will be in charge of the new coach and that is why it is so important that the club's chiefs choose him well. Although many options have been mentioned, such as Graham Potter, Unai Emery, Zinedine Zidane and Steven Gerrard, the favorite seems to be Xabi Alonso. He brings together many characteristics that make him an ideal choice: he has a glorious past as a Liverpool player and an excellent present as a coach at Bayer Leverkusen.

So good are the qualities of the former Spanish midfielder that even Jurgen Klopp praised him publicly and said: "Xabi is doing an incredible job. If there were not the rumours around, that’s completely independent, if you had asked me eight weeks ago about Xabi Alonso, I would have gone ‘Oh my God’".

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Klopp has confidence in him

The German coach then spoke of Xabi Alonso's youth as a key factor and said, "The dinosaurs if you want, Ancelotti, Mourinho, Guardiola, maybe me, we will not do it. Ok maybe Mourinho. But all the rest of us will not do it for the next 20 years. The next generation is already there and I would say Xabi is the stand-out in that department."