In January the German coach announced that he will leave the club at the end of the season, nine years after he arrived at Anfield.The top candidate to replace him is former Liverpool player Xabi Alonso, the current manager of Bayer Leverkusen.
His side are in with a shout of winning a treble, having reached the semi-finals of the DFB Pokal and the last-16 of the Europa League.Nobody expected Leverkusen to run away with the Bundesliga title, nor did they think their run to the semi-finals of the cup would create history. Two of the other semi-finalists, Fortuna Dusseldorf and Kaiserslautern, play in Germany's second tier, while the line-up is completed by third tier Saarbrucken.
Alonso is the favourite to land the Liverpool job, although the Premier League giants are expected to face stiff competitions from Bayern Munich.
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