Not long after Jurgen Klopp announced that he’d be stepping down as manager of Liverpool, there was insistence in Portugal that Ruben Amorim was a very serious candidate for the Reds.
Some dismissed that, believing the Sporting manager perhaps wasn’t of such interest, but as the weeks have gone on since those Portuguese claims in January, a consensus has grown.
Xabi Alonso deciding to stay at Bayer Leverkusen has given everything a kick, and Amorim may now even be the favourite for the soon-to-be-vacant Anfield bench.
Sunday’s edition of Correio da Manhã has a title shouting ‘Amorim wants to leave the double’. The manager is said to be aware of Liverpool interest, and that Barcelona are also paying attention, but before any of that he wants to win the league and cup double with Sporting.
Given he’s 39-years-of-age, the Sporting boss feels he has plenty of time to move to one of Europe’s biggest league and isn’t going to rush himself.
However, Correio da Manhã say people close to the manager believe he’d be ‘unlikely to resist’ an effort from Liverpool.
On top of the Reds regularly challenging for trophies, he’d be attracted by ‘the profile of the club itself: enormous passion among the fans; receptivity to value training and investing in young people; and predilection for attacking football’.
