Liverpool line-up Jurgen Klopp 2.0 to replace Arne Slot | OneFootball

Liverpool could hire Jurgen Klopp's 2.0 version if Arne Slot is fired.

The Dutchman cannot go on for much longer at Anfield if results and performances do not improve. A draw against Sunderland may have just saved his job temporarily but merely by a hair's breadth.

Slot still has much to work on and anything but three points against Leeds United on Saturday could put his job in jeopardy.

It does not matter that Leeds beat Chelsea midweek. They are a newly promoted side and while Elland Road is a hostile place to go to, a team of Liverpool's aspirations should be beating them comfortably even in their own yard.

Especially a team that has spent more than £450m in the summer window and boasts stars like Mo Salah, Alexander Isak and Florian Wirtz.

Unfortunately, three points is simply not guaranteed. If anything, with the way performances have been under Slot recently, a defeat is far more likely.

Should Leeds get a win, it will pretty much be the end of Slot's era at Anfield. Liverpool will exercise patience but patience can only go on for so long.

Ultimately, the manager will be sacrificed.

So then comes the question. If not Slot, who can actually come in to replace him?

Looking around the manager market, it's a bleak state at the moment. Perhaps even bleaker than it was when Liverpool were on their impossible search to replace Klopp just under two years ago.

However, there is one interesting candidate who is in the running and who could be a bit of a Klopp 2.0 at Anfield.

According to Caughtoffside, Richard Hughes and Michael Edwards are now doing background checks on Oliver Glasner, who they view as someone who can become the next Klopp and replace Slot if results do not improve.

Glasner is Austrian but he was educated in the same Bundesliga and gegenpressing foundations as the former Liverpool manager.

Wherever, he has gone in recent years Glasner has been successful. He delivered a Europa League title with Eintracht Frankfurt and won the FA Cup and the Community Shield with Crystal Palace.

Now he's on a mission to win the Europa Conference League as well.

In terms of Palace. They are a well-drilled side who have a solid defence and rarely give chances away. So Glasner would definitely be able to solidify Liverpool's leaky backline.

Whether he could become Klopp's 2.0 as the report suggests is moot. But he could be an interesting appointment.