Dirk Kuyt backs Xabi Alonso to replace Jurgen Klopp at Liverpool
Xabi Alonso is heavily linked with the soon-to-be-vacant Liverpool job (Picture: Getty)
Dirk Kuyt has backed former Liverpool teammate to replace Jurgen Klopp at Anfield after his impressive start to his managerial career.
Alonso?s Bayer Leverkusen are still yet to lose a game in the Bundesliga this season and hold a commanding ten-point lead over Bayern Munich with just eight games to go.
The Spaniard?s side are also in the Europa League quarter-finals where they will take on West Ham and could face a mouthwatering clash with Liverpool should both teams make it to the final.
The game could serve as the ultimate job interview for Alonso who is seen by Liverpool as the ideal replacement for Klopp at the end of the season when the curtain falls on his nine-year tenure at the club.
Kuyt has backed the Spaniard to be a success at Anfield if he gets the opportunity and said his managerial qualities were present even during his playing days.
?Well, you know, if you look at former team-mates and players, sometimes you doubt they can become a coach and then you see them doing really well in a management job. But, for Xabi, I think in my mind definitely he was like a future coach,? the Dutchman said in a wide-ranging interview with the Liverpool ECHO.
?I followed him and the steps he made in his career. I think he did very steady to manage a couple of U23s teams but then he had his first opportunity at Bayer Leverkusen and I think it was the right step.
Dirk Kuyt spent three...
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