What would Xabi Alonso's Liverpool actually look like?
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2024
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Jon Mackenzie is joined by Abel Meszaros and Danny Corcoran to explore the idea of Xabi Alonso as Liverpool manager, looking back at his managerial history, what Liverpool need from a manager right now, and looking forward to speculate what Xabipool would look like.
Who is Xabi Alonso, the coach?
What do Liverpool need from their next manager?
Is the Liverpool job a bit too early in the timeline for him?
Where would Trent Alexander-Arnold play?
This episode of the Tifo Football Podcast is presented by Jon Mackenzie, produced by Mike Zimmermann.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:07.5 | Hello and welcome to the TIFO Football Podcast. |
| 0:09.9 | I am John McKenzie, and I'm joined, as is my want, by my good friend and producer, Mike Zimmerman. |
| 0:15.5 | Mike, how's it going? |
| 0:16.3 | I'm doing well, John. |
| 0:17.6 | How are you doing? |
| 0:18.9 | I'm doing really well, and we have lots of fun things to talk about today. Topics that I think will interest you as a Liverpool fan, because we are thinking about Liverpool, but we are thinking about Liverpool in the context that they are going to be without a manager in the summer, which is sad, but also exciting because there's plenty of opportunity to talk about potential coaches who could come in and take over from Yergen Klopp. |
| 0:39.1 | And one of the most exciting options, I think, is Javi Alonzo. I think a lot of Liverpool fans will know Javier Onzo and will be excited about the fact he's doing really well, Ileu Kuzen. But we are talking about what Shabby Alonzo's Liverpool would look like. Well, yeah, and I think for Liverpool fans, I think the exciting thing is, yes, not only do we talk |
| 0:57.5 | about what Shabby Alonzo brings as a coach, what's his, you know, style and all that, but also |
| 1:03.7 | with the current Liverpool squad, how do you tie Shabia Lanzo's style with the current Liverpool |
| 1:10.4 | squad? And I think it was really fascinating |
| 1:11.9 | to talk about, especially the midfield where, you know, where does Alexis McAllister fit in? Does he |
| 1:16.9 | stay at the 6? Does he move up to the 8? Is there going to be a back 3, a back 5, a back 4? |
| 1:22.9 | So there's a lot of different ways that Shabu Alonzo plays and talking about that in the context of |
| 1:28.4 | the Liverpool squad was really interesting. And we have a real treat for people because we have two guests on today, one who is an expert in German football, Abolmejaroche, who we've had on before. We spent 20 minutes talking about what we've seen from Jabby Alonzo at Lovacuz in this season, And then we move on to talk to Danny Corcoran, who is a Liverpool fan about where Liverpool are at right now. |
| 1:29.3 | So we spend 20 million. Alonzo at Lavikus in this season and then we move on to talk to Danny Corcoran who is a Liverpool |
| 1:44.5 | fan about where Liverpool are at right now so we spend 20 minutes talking about that as well and |
| 1:49.5 | then we bring both of them together to talk about Jabby Paul what is it that Jabby Alonzo's |
| 1:53.5 | Liverpool will look like and I think the best thing for us to do is to just jump straight into that |
| 1:57.5 | conversation. |
| 2:09.2 | Well, guys, thank you so much for coming on today. |
| 2:14.6 | I'm really excited to talk to you about Jabby Alonzo as potentially a future Liverpool coach. |
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