Thomas Frank is one of the candidates to replace Jurgen Klopp at Liverpool but one former Premier League winner cannot shake the feeling that the Brentford boss could ruin into the same problems Graham Potter’s found at Chelsea.
OK, the situations are hardly identical.
Thomas Frank, if he is to inherit the house that the iconic German built at Anfield, would take over a club well-placed to continue Klopp’s legacy, Liverpool currently top of the Premier League with a host of talented young players going from strength-to-strength.
Potter, in contrast, took over a bonafide basket case when he put pen to paper with Chelsea. A spell which lasted just seven months and saw 12 wins from a possible 31.
Nonetheless, former Manchester United, Chelsea and Fulham defender Paul Parker still has concerns that Frank – like Potter at Chelsea and David Moyes in the post-Sir Alex Ferguson era at Old Trafford – may be taking on something of an ‘impossible job’ if he is chosen to succeed the most popular, most successful Liverpool manager of the modern era.
Liverpool eye Brentford manager Thomas Frank
“I would say that there is zero (per cent) chance of him getting that job. I don’t think anyone would ever see him as a Liverpool manager to be honest,” Parker, a two-time Premier League champion with the Red Devils in the 1990s, tells Tipsbladet.
“Thomas Frank could easily do a good job for Liverpool, but he would not be given a long leash. A feeling would quickly arise that it is too big a job for him if he experiences adversity.
“It was the same thing that happened to Graham Potter at Chelsea. That’s how it is when you come from a smaller club.”
Klopp thinks Frank is ‘incredible’
Frank, who took Brentford to the Premier League for the first time ever and has kept them there – The Bees seldom in fear of relegation – admitted when asked by Tispbladet about the Liverpool job that he does have ‘ambitions’ which likely stretch beyond West London.
Klopp has been full of praise about the charismatic Dane too. He labelled the job Frank has done at Brentford as nothing short of ‘incredible’.
HITC Football understands that Bayer Leverkusen boss Xabi Alonso remains the number one candidate, while there is also interest in Brighton’s Roberto de Zerbi. Tottenham Hotspur boss Ange Postecoglou has also been linked.
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