Just reading in The Athletic that Valverde and Spalletti were being seriously considered and that we knew Alonso was a long shot as early as February.
Interesting list of candidates and sounds like Amorim and De Zerbi were never close to being frontrunners.
Haha, they've done Hughes a dirty here, isn't he not yet started and still technically with Bournmouth?
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"It was in mid-April when Liverpool’s new sporting director Richard Hughes boarded a flight to the Netherlands. Back then, the speculation surrounding the club’s impending managerial vacancy was swirling around Ruben Amorim, the highly-rated young coach of Sporting Lisbon."