Leicester City gaffer Brendan Rodgers has been backed for a return to Anfield by Sky Sports pundit Jamie Carragher after Jurgen Klopp’s likely exit from the top job in 2024.
Rodgers was in charge of the Reds from 2011-2015 during which nearly led them to the Premier League title in the 2013-14 campaign only to miss out in a heartbreaking fashion to the eventual champions Manchester City.
Since his sacking from the Liverpool job in October 2015 following which Klopp was hired, Rodgers enjoyed a trophy-laden stint at Scottish outfit Celtic after which he made the move back to England’s top flight with Leicester City.
The Northern Irishman has tasted success with The Foxes too with the coveted FA Cup trophy clinched last season after the Wembley win over Chelsea added to Rodgers’ credentials as one of the top managers in Premier League football.
Carragher, speaking to Sky Sports ( via The Daily Express) has issued a backing for the Leicester City boss to take over from Jurgen Klopp with the German stages his exit from Anfield at the end of the 2023-24 campaign which has been subject to much speculation in the recent past.
“I’m a huge fan of Brendan Rodgers and think he’s a brilliant manager, I really do.”
“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.
“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.
“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.”
