Sunday 27 November 2016 13:03, UK
It would be hard to prise Jurgen Klopp from Liverpool, say the Sunday Supplement panel, with Bayern Munich reportedly eyeing his services.
The Bundesliga champions have made an unusually stuttering start to the 2016/17 season under Carlo Ancelotti and currently sit second behind surprise leaders RP Leipzig.
It has prompted reports in the Sunday Mirror that the club are looking to bring the Reds boss to the Allianz Arena, but the Daily Telegraph's Northern football correspondent, James Ducker, thinks it would be a hard task to convince him to do so.
"I think the one thing we have seen with Klopp is that he is very loyal to the clubs he has been at before," he said on Sunday Supplement.
"He thinks very carefully about what he is going to do, the jobs he is going to take and when he takes them, he commits to them very seriously so I think it would be very difficult indeed to prise him away from Anfield.
"There's a tremendous allure for managers about Liverpool. The idea of revitalising one of the great European clubs would hugely appeal to Klopp.
"I don't know if, given his past association with Dortmund, a move to Bayern would be a bit of a no-go area for him but I will be very surprised if he turned his back on Liverpool.
"They have issues to address in the side obviously but there are signs of a real identity being forged. A real front foot, fast, fluid fluent sort of football. The fans are captivated by him and there's excitement there. I think Liverpool feel that they have got someone who can finally after 26 years or so can put them back on top."
It is a sentiment shared by The Times' chief sports writer Matt Dickinson, who is also surprised by the early criticism of Ancelotti.
"I'm surprised at the story just because Ancelotti is not a guy that you jettison quickly. He is statistically one of the greatest managers of all time so you cannot jettison him lightly," he said on the Sky Sports show.
"If I'm Klopp, given what I'm building at Liverpool, it just doesn't make sense to me to walk away from that. They are clearly going in a direction that's forward.
"Maybe we get this wrong and he wants to be manager of a Manchester United or Bayern, a team that shall we say has been more established recently, but there is something of the rebel outside in him.
"He did it with Dortmund and to put Liverpool back on top, it would almost be a great achievement than anything he could do at Bayern with all the benefits that they have got."
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