Jurgen Klopp isn’t the only member of Liverpool’s coaching staff to have signed a contract extension today, with his assistant managers Peter Krawietz and Pepijn Lijnders also agreeing new deals at Anfield.
The club’s official website liverpoolfc.com confirmed that the pair have mirrored the Reds’ first-team boss in committing their future to Liverpool until 2024.
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While Krawietz came to Anfield with Klopp back in 2015, Lijnders joined the club a year earlier, briefly departing in 2018 to manage NEC Nijmegen before returning to Merseyside. [via liverpoolfc.com]
Earlier this year, journalist Raphael Honigstein said that Lijnders’ growing influence at Anfield was the reason for Klopp’s former assistant Zeljko Buvac suddenly leaving the club in April 2018 (as per Spox.com, via talkSPORT), a year before the Reds lifted the Champions League under Klopp.
That ended a long working relationship between the pair, with Buvac being Klopp’s assistant for the entirety of his seven-year spells at Mainz and Borussia Dortmund before they came to Liverpool together four years ago.
The 58-year-old Bosnian has not worked in a coaching role since leaving Liverpool and these Reds fans on Twitter don’t seem to be missing him too much:
https://twitter.com/3y3_calling/status/1205453368040312832
https://twitter.com/nana_figa/status/1205453777706332161
Extremely glad the 'Buvac was the brain behind Klopp's coaching' agenda has gone silent
— Finessin' (@Ozzyolamide) December 13, 2019
No need for Buvac…
— AHM3D (@___AHM3D) December 13, 2019
With this news, I just had a curiosity about where is our beloved Buvac, without whom our supporters felt that we would be doomed. Seriously, what is he upto?
— ryoe (@ryoe83) December 13, 2019
Is Zeljko Buvac still on holiday
— jacK (@JackIfc_) December 13, 2019
Do you think Buvac’s departure from Liverpool has ultimately proven to be a good thing? Have your say by commenting below!
