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There have been claims this week that Liverpool would still have loved to appoint Xabi Alonso if he’d been available.

And another to have been very heavily linked was Sporting’s Ruben Amorim.

We’d been looking into predicted line-ups for the coach and all sorts.

But things blew up this week, with Amorim surpassed by Slot.

Strap yourselves in, because this is a brilliant read.

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“Without Xabi Alonso, Ruben Amorim became Liverpool’s strongest target,” notes the journalist.

The English club wanted to hear more names: it started with Gary O’Neil (Wolves) and, later, Arne slot (Feyenoord), who, in turn, was even better evaluated internally.

“After waiting for days, Ruben Amorim and Raúl Costa decided to listen to West Ham.

In addition to the trip to London having gone down badly in the sporting scene, Liverpool understood the strategy and, the very next day (!!!), made the counterattack: they accelerated negotiations with Slot and, unlike previous cases, did not even I wanted to prevent the story from reaching the press.”

This all reads like Amorim was incredibly naïve in his dealings with Liverpool.

When has anybody ever gotten away with trying something like this on Michael Edwards of all people.

Reading between the lines, it seems as though had Amorim not pulled his little stunt, then he might well have been the man chosen to lead Liverpool.

He and Slot were clearly the two candidates the Reds liked the most.
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