With Roberto De Zerbi touted as a doable successor to Jurgen Klopp as Liverpool supervisor, the German’s recommendation to his counterpart at Anfield was fascinating.
Although Sporting CP supervisor Ruben Amorim is taken into account the favorite to take over at Anfield this summer season, De Zerbi seems firmly within the combine.
The Brighton boss is the opposite title often talked about alongside Amorim, with Xabi Alonso now dominated out after committing to stick with Bayer Leverkusen.
Alonso’s revelation was well timed given the conflict between Liverpool and Brighton on Sunday, which ended with Klopp’s first win over De Zerbi after 5 makes an attempt.
Chatting with BBC Radio 5 Dwell after the 2-1 win, Klopp revealed what he informed De Zerbi within the tunnel throughout a heat embrace.
“I informed De Zerbi to maintain turning the soccer world the wrong way up,” he defined.
“I’ll watch it from far. I respect a lot what he’s doing.
“It’s unimaginable what he has achieved. Brighton have misplaced Alexis Mac Allister and Moises Caicedo, they’ve a lot of accidents, however he places a workforce like that collectively.
“An unimaginable job.”
In his post-match interview with LFCTV, Klopp continued: “Ripping Mac Allister out of this workforce, with all respect – not solely him, Chelsea took Caicedo – that was the engine room of this workforce.
“They now produce other gamers there they usually do rather well. The third one, Billy Gilmour, is badly injured.
“Realizing all that, what a heck of a job he’s doing. It’s actually insane.”
Klopp won’t play a component in Liverpool’s recruitment course of in terms of the subsequent supervisor, with Michael Edwards and Richard Hughes now in cost.
But when the 56-year-old was requested for a advice, he would doubtless give his backing to De Zerbi given the admiration he has for his work at Brighton.
