Liverpool are considering bringing former coach Pep Lijnders back to Anfield this summer as he finds himself without a club after leaving NEC Nijmegen, according to a report.
The Telegraph claim on their website that the former Reds man could make a shock u-turn and head back the Merseyside less than six months after he left to join the Dutch side, and departs the Netherlands having failed to gain promotion as manager.
Jurgen Klopp has been smitten with his former coach in the past, quoted by the Telegraph as saying: “I cannot imagine how it would be without him,” and with the departure of Zeljko Buvac, who is reportedly unlikely to step back into his former role at Liverpool, the German is said to be seeking new staff.
OPINION
It has been a strange half a year behind the scenes at Anfield and now Klopp looks to be scouting for more than just players over the summer. He has lost two of his most trusted allies and he has done well to not let it affect him or the first team. Now he has the opportunity to bring back one of them and after the way he has spoken about Lijnders in the past, it seems inevitable that he will ask the question of returning to Anfield. Of course, Lijnders might well have got the taste for managerial duty in his short time away and would rather work as a number one elsewhere, but if that is not the case, then at least he knows he has a job waiting for him among a club he knows well, with people that will get him right back into the swing of things.