There are big chances that next summer, Bayer’s first team will be dismantled by big clubs. Given that Xabi has overachieved on all possible records there, it’s highly likely that he’ll want to be part of that clear-out and leave too as long as his stake is high. As you say, timing is everything.
I’m maybe biased, but we must have good chances of capturing him, going by everything he has said about LFC in the past.
To stay on topic, we have now a settled upstairs structure, with outstanding personnel, and that is surely important for a good, ambitious, yet young manager like Xabi.
I don’t care whether Pep is good enough or not because at this point of time I am still reeling from the shock of the club going back on their word and causing me alot of embarrassment after the announcement earlier this year
In a world where that doesn’t happen, I’m not sure. Probably Nagelsmann. So long as he comes in with his head down to work hard, and not be showy.
Part of me wonders if his reputation is a bit damaged because, as a young man, he took the Bayern Munich job, and he ran into old German footballing authority, old money, a bit of an old boys network, in its own way (that’s the sort of vibe I get from Bayern Munich, from afar, illustrious players all around the place, recent former, and long ago former, and senior pros running the dressing room too… so a young pup like Nagelsmann probably got slapped down a bit, and probably didn’t help himself either).
Anyhow, if I could squint a bit, and live in a world where the Bayern Munich breakdown wasn’t really Nagelsmann’s fault, I think he is a young manager who still has big club jobs in his future.
Mind you, I wouldn’t take that skateboard onto Stanley Park, or a Bully XL will sort that out
All this is to say, Alonso, all day long, and I think it will be him.
But if forced to look beyond him, Nagelsmann might come into the reckoning for me.
He’s growing on me, and not in a fungal way. I forget who the person is (Liverpool connected journalist), he makes a few very, very compelling arguments with him over Xabi. The main one that stuck with me is “What happens when RM come calling in a couple of years”.
