Liverpool assistant manager Pep Lijnders has been linked with a move to Ajax, and Fabrizio Romano has confirmed he will leave Anfield.
Sources indicate Lijnders is favourite for the Ajax job.
Liverpool assistant manager Pep Lijnders has been linked with a move to Ajax, and Fabrizio Romano has confirmed he will leave Anfield in the summer and there’s no chance of him sticking around.
When Jurgen Klopp announced that he would be departing at the end of the season, Lijnders might have been thinking that this was his opportunity to enter the hot seat and return to management. Although there’s a good chance he now secures a manager’s job in time for the 2024/2025 campaign, it doesn’t look like it’s going to be with Liverpool.
Pep Lijnders Will be Leaving Liverpool
He’s a candidate for the Ajax job
Speaking in his Daily Briefing, Romano has provided an update on the future of Lijnders, confirming that he will be leaving Anfield during the summer, with Ajax a possible destination…
“Liverpool assistant Pep Lijnders has emerged as one of the candidates to be the new Ajax manager for next season. Lijnders is under consideration at the club, but still waiting on a decision. For sure, he will be leaving Liverpool alongside Jurgen Klopp – he’s not staying on beyond the end of this season.”
This wouldn’t be Lijnders’ first step into management, having been in charge of NEC Nijmegen for 22 games. The 41-year-old will certainly have the backing of Klopp, with the German manager describing him as the ‘most influential’ man for Liverpool over the last few years, suggesting that the job he’s done has been ‘exceptional’.
Sources revealed to GIVEMESPORT earlier this month that Lijnders was the favourite for the Ajax job. The Eredivisie outfit brought in John van’t Schip for the remainder of the season as caretaker manager, but Liverpool’s assistant could enter the hot seat in the summer. Lijnders now wants to become a manager in his own right after spending a large portion of his career as an assistant.
A report from The Telegraph has also confirmed that Lijnders has been ruled out of the running for the Liverpool job, with the Merseyside outfit focusing on other targets.
Newly-appointed Liverpool sporting director Richard Hughes, Sporting boss Ruben Amorim and Michael Edwards watching on
