Xabi Alonso will have a phenomenal career as Liverpool manager if ten-year trend is anything to go by - opinion

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Football loves a strange pattern, and Liverpool supporters have just been handed one that links together the iconic Jurgen Klopp and the potential future manager Xabi Alonso. Arne Slot is Liverpool’s head coach until he’s not, but if it goes how many have predicted and Liverpool’s interest in Alonso spurs a managerial change, he has already taken the first step on the Klopp path.

Before the German arrived and transformed Liverpool, Brendan Rodgers’ side battered Klopp’s Borussia Dortmund 4-0 at Anfield in August 2014. Then, a decade later, Slot’s Liverpool thumped Alonso’s Bayer Leverkusen 4-0 on Merseyside in November 2024.

Gerrard vs Howe, pick one to be Liverpool’s next manager! 🗳️ Credit: LFC Foundation/Liverpool FC/Robbie Jay Barratt/AMA/Getty Images Xabi Alonso got the Jurgen Klopp treatment at Anfield 10 years apartThe first part of this story came when Liverpool tore Dortmund apart through goals from Daniel Sturridge, Dejan Lovren, Philippe Coutinho and Jordan Henderson. Liverpool smashed Klopp before he took the job, then did the same to Alonso a decade later.