Pink Bull Salzburg are contemplating appointing departing Liverpool assistant supervisor Pep Lijnders as their new head coach, a brand new report has revealed.
41-year-old Lijnders is leaving Liverpool on the finish of the season alongside Jurgen Klopp, bringing the curtain down on two massively profitable stints because the German’s quantity two.
Lijnders has already dipped his toes into first group administration, spending 5 months with Dutch facet NEC Nijmegen in 2018 earlier than being sacked, and stated in February that he was able to step as much as being a primary once more.
“I actually consider that it is a pure development,” he remarked. “I all the time stated I’ll end with Jurgen, I cannot help anybody else, that is the second I’ll go and handle. We finish this challenge collectively that we began.”
Salzburg, who competed on this season’s Champions League and completed backside of a bunch containing Actual Sociedad, Inter and Benfica, parted methods with former boss Gerhard Struber in April, and The Athletic report that Lijnders is seen because the ‘excellent candidate’ to take over.
Had been Lijnders to take over at Salzburg, he’d be tasked with reasserting the membership because the dominant drive of Austrian soccer – barring a shock slip-up from Sturm Graz on the weekend, they may lose their decade-long grip on the home league title.
Backed by Pink Bull since 2006, Salzburg have helped nurture a few of world soccer’s greatest gamers of their adolescence, most noticeably progressing the careers of Erling Haaland and Sadio Mane.
Karim Adeyemi, Benjamin Sesko, Dominik Szoboszlai and Naby Keita are 4 different high-profile gamers to have honed their craft in Austria, with Bundesliga high-flyers RB Leipzig typically the beneficiaries when the time has come to maneuver these gamers on.
Lijnders first labored as a youth coach at Liverpool, becoming a member of at a time when Brendan Rodgers was supervisor, earlier than working as Klopp’s quantity two for the membership’s Champions League, Premier League and home cup successes.
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