Liverpool were hoping to bring Bayer Leverkusen manager Xabi Alonso to Anfield this summer, but Fabrizio Romano has confirmed he won’t be leaving.

 

Liverpool were hoping to bring Bayer Leverkusen manager Xabi Alonso to Anfield this summer, but Fabrizio Romano has confirmed he won’t be leaving.

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Liverpool’s hopes of bringing in Xabi Alonso to replace Jurgen Klopp have been dashed.

Alonso is staying at Bayer Leverkusen after an impressive season.

The Spanish manager’s decision to stay has been confirmed by journalist Fabrizio Romano.

Liverpool were hoping to bring Bayer Leverkusen manager Xabi Alonso to Anfield to replace the outgoing Jurgen Klopp this summer, but Fabrizio Romano has now confirmed that he will be staying with the Bundesliga club.

The Reds outlined Alonso as one of their key targets in their hunt for a new manager after an impressive season with Leverkusen. The German side are flying high at the top of the Bundesliga with a 10-point lead over Bayern Munich. The Merseyside club will now be forced to go back to the drawing board, with the Spanish manager going nowhere ahead of the 2024/2025 campaign.

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Italian journalist Romano has now confirmed that Alonso is set to stay at Bayer Leverkusen this summer with an official announcement to come. The 42-year-old will be staying for another season at least, with a release clause becoming active in 2025. Liverpool and Bayern Munich, who were both pushing to secure his signature, have been informed of his decision to stay put.

The former Liverpool midfielder clearly wants to continue the project he’s building with Leverkusen, and it’s no surprise, with the German club still competing in three competitions, with the Bundesliga title theirs to lose this season. Romano later added that Alonso is involved with planning new signings for Leverkusen for the summer transfer window, and alongside Liverpool and Bayern, Real Madrid will also keep monitoring their former midfielder for the future.

Xabi Alonso – 2023/24 managerial stats

Matches

38

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33

Draws

5

Losses

0

Points per match

2.74

Correct as of 29/03/2024

Liverpool still have plenty of time to find an alternative to Alonso, and the backroom team will already have a lengthy shortlist of managers in case this situation happened. With Klopp confirming to the Reds that he was going to be departing with months remaining in the season, Michael Edwards and Richard Hughes are still in a strong position to bring in an ideal replacement.

GIVEMESPORT Key Statistic: Xabi Alonso remains the only unbeaten manager in Europe’s top-five leagues this season.

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ESPN journalist Mark Ogden has now claimed that Brighton & Hove Albion manager Roberto De Zerbi is top of Liverpool’s list as an alternative to Alonso. The Italian coach has done an impressive job with the Seagulls, helping guide them into Europe for the first time. His attractive style of play is likely to be a hit with the supporters at Anfield, and he already has a bit of Premier League experience under his belt.

Journalist Ben Jacobs has recently told GIVEMESPORT that Hughes, who will join the club as sporting director later this year, is a ‘big fan’ of De Zerbi, and he’s likely to have a major say on who the next manager is going to be.

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It looks like Real Madrid already won the Xabi Alonso race
March 28, 2024
Xabi Alonso has become the most coveted name in the managerial market by leading Bayer Leverkusen to an undefeated start to the 2023/24 season.

Die Werkself are in the driver’s seat to win the Bundesliga and break up Bayern Munich’s hegemony of the title, having brought Die Roten to their knees in a recent 3-0 drubbing.

Every top club with a possible manager vacancy is after Alonso, including former club Bayern. Two other former clubs of his, Liverpool and Real Madrid, have also been linked, even though Los Blancos don’t currently have a managerial vacancy.

Yet as it stands, it looks like Real Madrid have won the battle to sign Xabi Alonso before the summer transfer window even begins, in spite of the fact that they already have a settled coaching situation with the legendary Carlo Ancelotti at the helm.

That’s because Alonso has reportedly decided to stay with the Bayer Leverkusen project for at least one more season, as the club have all but guaranteed a Champions League berth for the 2024/25 season.

Not only does Alonso remain committed to the Leverkusen project in the short term, but this also increases the chances of him leaving Leverkusen at a later date when Real Madrid are ready to replace Ancelotti with a more long-term manager.

Real Madrid initially hired Carletto to replace Zinedine Zidane after the French icon’s resignation, intending to hire the Italian coach as a short-term solution before hiring someone else to manage the team over the long haul.

At the time, Alonso was mentioned alongside Raúl and even Julian Nagelsmann as a possible “coach for the future” at the Santiago Bernabéu.

For Alonso, the future is now. He is already as good as any manager in the world, based on what he is accomplishing in Germany at his first major coaching gig.

Alonso could have the keys to the kingdom in Madrid, working with the likes of Jude Bellingham, Rodrygo Goes, Aurélien Tchouaméni, Endrick, Vinícius Júnior, and, very likely, Kylian Mbappé on a team loaded with young talent.

The Spanish manager is already working wonders in Leverkusen with young up-and-coming stars, but imagine what he would be capable of with the full powers of the Real Madrid machine and their young phenoms.

A new era could be dawning on the Spanish capital, with Carlo giving way to a player he once managed to greatness en route to La Décmia. And Alonso will aim to win many more Champions Leagues in Madrid.

Liverpool have a very appealing sporting project to offer to Alonso, but there’s something about Madrid that is too good to pass up on. It appears Alonso is willing to wait for Madrid while enjoying the fruits of his labors in Leverkusen at the Champions League level next season.

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But for all the seller’s regret City might be feeling after seeing Palmer practically running the Chelsea attack by himself for large parts of the season, at least he isn’t the only startlingly talented youngster they have coming through. Rico Lewis and Oscar Bobb are both on the fringes of the first team already – and are full internationals for their respective countries – but there may well be another player now on the books who could have an even bigger impact if City and Guardiola get his development right.

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In January, City spent a reported £12.5m plus add-ons to buy 18-year-old Argentine attacking midfielder Claudio Echeverri from River Plate before loaning him back for the remainder of the year. And judging by the way he’s started the new season in his home country, City will want to fast-track him as far and as fast as Guardiola is willing to permit.

Standing 5’7” tall in his studded boots, Echeverri is nicknamed ‘El Diablito’ – ‘The Little Devil’ – both for his short stature, his dribbling skills and as a play on the nickname of Bolivia legend Marco ‘El Diablo’ Etcheverry, who was similarly quick, similarly hard to tackle and had an equally powerful strike as well as being a near-namesake. But watching him play, there’s at least as much of a resemblance to Foden in the way he runs quickly at defenders with the ball glued to his feet.

He has a similar sort of dribbling style to Foden too, hunched slightly over the ball as he motors past tackles with pace and deftness. It’s his ball-carrying skills which have caught the eye the most so far, and he’s left many far more experienced defenders for dead in the Argentinian domestic game already, but his game is well-rounded.

He’s a goalscorer, recently bagging a brilliant first goal for River in a game against Gimnasia after he hared into the penalty area, slalomed past a defender who was completely befuddled by a flick of the feet and lashed the ball into the roof of the net on the angle with his favoured right foot. For a small man, he can generate some hugely impressive power with his shots. And while that might have been his first professional goal, he’s also rattled in 12 goals in 20 matches for Argentina’s Under-17s, including a hat-trick in the World Cup against Brazil.

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He’s not the finished article, of course, and he often has to use his dancing feet to dig himself out of trouble thanks to a slightly leaden first touch which means he doesn’t have the instantaneous control of a player like his idol, Lionel Messi, but given the degree of technique he has and the speed of his development, you wouldn’t bet against him adding that to his arsenal down the line. He looks like one hell of a player.

City will need to take care of him and make sure he has the opportunities he needs in a way they ultimately failed to do with Palmer. With the Chelsea man, they did half of the job, training him up to have all the quality he needed to succeed but never letting him get enough of a chance to impress in the senior squad. Leaving Echeverri on loan at River was probably a smart move in that regard. By the time he finally makes the trip to Manchester, he should have his first full season of top-level football under his belt.

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One can’t fault the young man’s determination – but one can fault the lack of a clear pathway for City’s academy players. Given how much they’ve invested in bringing some of the best young talent in the game to the Etihad Campus over the last few years, they’re going to need to learn the Cole Palmer lesson quickly, otherwise they will have wasted a lot of money, and potentially the talent of supremely gifted players. Echeverri, you would think, is too good to be allowed to go to waste.

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Liverpool’s squad has reassembled after the international break.

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Jurgen Klopp will be hoping that Liverpool’s injury list can clear up for the final 10 games of the campaign, while an assault on the Europa League is also ongoing.

Klopp had hoped that Curtis Jones would be back for the Reds after the international break. The midfielder has been sidelined since suffering an ankle injury in a 4-1 win at Brentford on 17 February, which denied him a potential maiden England senior call-up. But Jones was absent from training, per Sky Sports filming the session.

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According to the latest reports, Liverpool will have a ‘world-class’ player missing the game against Manchester United.

Ever since that defeat before the international break at Old Trafford in the FA Cup, Liverpool will have been desperate to bounce back.

This international break has probably seemingly stretched on for a lot longer because of that blow at Old Trafford. However, the wait is not far away now. Liverpool will be back in action on Sunday, and taking on Brighton in the Premier League.

That game is going to be hugely important for Liverpool, as will the following game against Sheffield United at Anfield next Thursday. However, the match everyone is looking forward to is next Sunday’s return to Old Trafford.

It will be a game that could decide Liverpool’s fate in the Premier League title race. It will also be a perfect opportunity for Liverpool to strike revenge.

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Already he has missed more games than any other previous season for Liverpool. Earlier reports, though seemed optimistic that he could return from injury to play against Manchester United. However, those reports have been quashed by The Athletic.

According to The Athletic, Alexander-Arnold is expected to miss the Manchester United game. The earliest he could return to action for Liverpool is against Atalanta in the Europa League on April 11th, or the game against Crystal Palace in the Premier League three days later.

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Arsenal are close to landing Manchester City assistant Mikel Arteta as their new boss – and he could raid Pep Guardiola’s men immediately.

The Gunners are moving closer to landing Arteta, as reported by The Mirror, and it’s key that the rookie coach brings in an experienced assistant manager to aid him.

That same report suggests that the top target is Manchester City assistant coach Rodolfo Borrell, who has of course worked with Arteta at the Etihad Stadium.

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