Carragher names Brendan Rodgers as ideal replacement for Klopp at Liverpool

Jamie Carragher believes Brendan Rodgers would be the ideal candidate to return to Liverpool and replace Jurgen Klopp when he departs Anfield.

Klopp has taken the Reds to dizzy heights since replacing Rodgers on Merseyside back in 2015, winning their first ever Premier League title as well as the Champions League.

His predecessor came mightily close to ending their lengthy wait for a league crown, with Steven Gerrard's slip against Chelsea costing them dearly at the business end of the 2013/14 campaign.

Since being sacked by Liverpool Rodgers has enjoyed success with Celtic and Leicester, guiding the latter to FA Cup glory last season.

And while he doesn't expect it to happen, Carragher says he would love to see the Northern Irishman replace Klopp when he eventually waves goodbye to the club.

"I’m a huge fan of Brendan Rodgers and think he’s a brilliant manager, I really do,” the Liverpool icon told Sky Sports.

“I’ve worked with him for 12 months at Liverpool and I think this job came too early for him. If Jurgen Klopp was to leave Liverpool tomorrow Brendan Rodgers would be top of the list.

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“That’s not going to happen because he’s been here (Liverpool) before – but done a brilliant job at Leicester.

“It is a bump in the road and I almost feel at Leicester because they’ve fell away at the end it’s almost looked at negatively – ‘Oh the season they threw away the top four’.

“They’re a really good side, a great club in how they recruit but it’s still overachieving what they’ve been doing in the mix of that top four under Brendan Rodgers year in, year out.

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“He won’t panic, they’ll come back, but I think it’ll be tough to get into the top four for any club now with the strength of what we see at those top four clubs now.

“It will be tough but they will move up the table."

Carragher's co-pundit Micah Richards then waxed lyrical about the work Klopp has done at Anfield.

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“It’s absolutely staggering. When Klopp came in nobody knew what direction Liverpool were going to go," he said.

“I spoke to Jamie a lot about where did he think they’ll go, not even he could imagine how well they would’ve done."

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