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Liverpool should replace Jurgen Klopp with his assistant Pep Lijnders because he could hit the ground running next season, according to Phil Thompson.

Lijnders will leave alongside Klopp at the end of the season and has ruled himself out of the running to replace him, but Thompson would like him to stay put and step up.

“I don’t think he’d [Lijnders] have too many objectors [to replace Klopp], Liverpool fans, if they know enough about the club and the people behind the scenes and the back-up staff for Jurgen,” the former Reds centre-back said on talkSPORT.

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Pep Lijnders is highly regarded, but has ruled himself out of replacing Jurgen Klopp?

Is Pep Lijnders the right man to replace Jurgen Klopp at Liverpool.

They will find a new coach with ideas and I am excited to manage to find the right club.”

Lijnders joined Liverpool in 2014 to become assistant manager and while he briefly left in 2018 to manager NEC in his homeland of the Netherlands, he quickly returned.