{"id":171712,"date":"2024-04-15T15:00:50","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T15:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/04\/15\/ex-bayern-munich-manager-under-serious-consideration-for-liverpool-job\/"},"modified":"2024-04-15T15:00:50","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T15:00:50","slug":"ex-bayern-munich-manager-under-serious-consideration-for-liverpool-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/04\/15\/ex-bayern-munich-manager-under-serious-consideration-for-liverpool-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Bayern Munich manager \u2018under serious consideration\u2019 for Liverpool job \u2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Former Bayern Munich manager Niko Kovac is a surprise candidate to replace Jurgen Klopp at Liverpool, according to a report.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>90min<\/em>\u00a0understands while Sporting CP boss Ruben Amorim is currently the leading contender for the job,\u00a0an agreement has not been finalised\u00a0and Liverpool are still hoping to interview three candidates.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Daily Mail<\/em>\u00a0report that Kovac, who managed Bayern between 2018 and 2019, is \u2018under serious consideration\u2019 to fill the vacancy at Anfield.<\/p>\n<p>The Croatian\u2019s representatives sounded out his availability to Premier League clubs during a recent trip to London, hoping to secure him a return to management having been sacked by Wolfsburg last month.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/01hvgephr057d40ebwsj.jpg\" alt=\"VfL Wolfsburg v FC Augsburg - Bundesliga\" title=\"VfL Wolfsburg v FC Augsburg - Bundesliga\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Kovac is looking for work again \/ Max Ellerbrake \u2013 firo sportphoto\/GettyImages<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<p>Kovac\u2019s short stint in charge of Bayern saw him claim three trophies, but they were notably eliminated from the 2018\/19 Champions League by eventual winners\u00a0Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p>He was also the Bayern manager who oversaw their 7-2 victory away at Tottenham Hotspur in the group stage of the following Champions League campaign. However, he left the Bavarian giants by mutual consent following a 5-1 defeat at Eintracht Frankfurt a few weeks later.<\/p>\n<p>After leaving\u00a0Bayern, Kovac was appointed as the head coach of Monaco in the summer of 2020. He led them to the Coupe de France final and qualification to the play-off round of the Champions League during his only full season at the helm, stepping down midway through the 2021\/22 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Kovac\u2019s most recent job was at Wolfsburg, where once again he departed in his second season. During his one full campaign \u2013 the 2022\/23 season \u2013 Wolfsburg missed out on Europa League qualification by just one point to Xabi Alonso\u2019s Bayer Leverkusen. He has since been replaced at the Volkswagen Arena by former Southampton manager Ralph Hasenhuttl.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-748-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-850485\"  \/><\/figure>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 1 --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Bayern Munich manager Niko Kovac is a surprise candidate to replace Jurgen Klopp at Liverpool, according to a report. 90min\u00a0understands while Sporting CP boss Ruben Amorim is currently the leading contender for the job,\u00a0an agreement has not been finalised\u00a0and Liverpool are still hoping to interview three candidates. The\u00a0Daily Mail\u00a0report that Kovac, who managed Bayern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":171713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ex-Bayern Munich manager \u2018under serious consideration\u2019 for Liverpool job \u2013 - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/04\/15\/ex-bayern-munich-manager-under-serious-consideration-for-liverpool-job\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ex-Bayern Munich manager \u2018under serious consideration\u2019 for Liverpool job \u2013 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former Bayern Munich manager Niko Kovac is a surprise candidate to replace Jurgen Klopp at Liverpool, according to a report. 90min\u00a0understands while Sporting CP boss Ruben Amorim is currently the leading contender for the job,\u00a0an agreement has not been finalised\u00a0and Liverpool are still hoping to interview three candidates. 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