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Liverpool will have to fork out a cool £12.8million if they want to make Brighton boss Roberto De Zerbi their next manager.

But like fellow admirers Bayern Munich, Liverpool are now being forced to look elsewhere for their next boss and De Zerbi has emerged as a leading candidate for both clubs.

Brighton aren't willing to let him go on the cheap, however, with the Premier League side likely to demand his full €15m (£12.8m) release clause should the Italian want desire to leave, just like the £21.5m they received in Graham Potter's exit to Chelsea.



Should the Reds decide not to pursue the former Sassuolo and Shakhtar Donetsk coach, then Sporting Lisbon boss Ruben Amorim is another alternative to Alonso.

The highly-rated Portuguese coach won the league title with Sporting in his first full season, 2020-21, and is still only 39.

De Zerbi is proven in the Premier League, though, giving him an advantage.

Liverpool's next manager will be decided by Michael Edwards - the club's former sporting director who now works for owners Fenway Sports Group as their CEO of football - and newly-appointed sporting director Richard Hughes, who arrived from Bournemouth and is reportedly a fan of De Zerbi's!

I would like in my career to compete to win the Premier League, Serie A, the Bundesliga, Champions League - but there isn't a time when [I] have to go."

De Zerbi has the chance to impress Liverpool's hierarchy on Sunday when he takes Brighton up to Anfield for a 2pm kick-off.
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