Jurgen Klopp has already confirmed who will replace Arne Slot

It's now a matter of when, not if Arne Slot will leave his position as Liverpool head-coach.

Having divided the dressing room, failed to come up with a coherent tactic and continuing to suffer disappointing results, the Dutchman's position is simply not tenable.

Slot just doesn't fit into the philosophy of Liverpool. His man-management skills are simply not up to handling big egos and talented young players.

He refuses to rotate. Has clear favourites in the squad and the way he handled players like Jarell Quansah, Harvey Elliott and Tyler Morton is really concerning for the future of Liverpool - given it is a key foundation of the club to promote young talent from the academy.

Obviously, the question then beckons, if not Slot, who?

Well in the intermediary period, Liverpool have to come up with a short-term solution because in the long-term there is only one obvious choice and Jurgen Klopp's comments in the past made that clear.

Speaking of the German, naturally he would be a candidate. But Klopp seems content away from management in his role at Red Bull and given his relationship with Michael Edwards wasn't always the greatest, it just seems unlikely that he would come back to manage the club.

Liverpool could stay on the German path, though. And it feels inevitable that this is their long-term plan.

There really is only one candidate in world football who is ready to take over from Slot. That candidate is Julian Nagelsmann.

At this moment in time, there is a very slim chance he would accept the role as the club's new head-coach mid-season.

Nagelsmann wants to lead Germany to the World Cup and that is understandable. He's been working towards this goal for years.

So Liverpool will have to wait for him to become available in the summer.

But there is no question he is bound to be a future Liverpool manager. He's the only one with a proven pedigree at the highest level and who has the pressing and possession-based system that could thrive with the current players Liverpool have at their disposal.

Jurgen Klopp confirmed just why Nagelsmann is the perfect fit for Liverpool. In a conversation with Nagelsmann for the Champions Journal, Klopp admitted he was really impressed with the German coach set-up to face him with Hoffenheim back in 2017.

“I had heard a lot about Julian Nagelsmann and then we got the analysis for the game and I thought, ‘Wow, hats off!’ I much prefer that … someone has a clear way of playing which you can see. I can work with that; I can develop something from that,” Klopp recalled.

“When you have no clue what the opponent is doing and they’re only passing balls from left to right, then you just think to yourself, ‘What are they thinking?’ And in the end, it always turns out that it’s probably not much, which is really difficult to prepare for. So that was a challenge in preparation, but still we could develop something.

“The way you played was really exceptional. You really focused on ball possession, on good processes. I really liked that.

"But for us that was pretty practical because we weren’t as advanced then as we are now. We could focus on our possession play, passing here and there. That helped us quite a bit. In the end, quality is often the decisive factor.

"Back then, you were always described as a coaching talent, and you were! You kind of still are. But at least now you’re slowly reaching the age where other people are also coaches, which helps to get rid of this title. But I was really impressed.”

This is such a refreshing thing to hear about a young manager. Klopp's words prove Nagelsmann is the man to replace Slot.

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