SPORTING Lisbon boss Ruben Amorim is one of the most highly-rated young coaches in football today.
The former Portuguese international midfielder has, to this point, shown patience and self-belief in terms of building his career and making choices in terms of when to move clubs to give himself a greater platform.
No wonder he is now the outright favourite to replace Jurgen Klopp at Liverpool when the German leaves the club at the end of the season.
Now that Xabi Alonso has revealed he will be staying at Bayer Leverkusen for at least one more season, it seems Amorim is Klopp's heir apparent.
Liverpool are known to use a data-generated model to rate and evaluate coaches from around the world.
And Amorim is one of the top names on that model, along with Alonso, Roberto De Zerbi at Brighton and the current Bologna coach Thiago Motta.
Amorim has always shown real personality in terms of believing in himself and believing in his model of play.
He has shown a clear history of being willing to back himself in terms of stepping up levels as he moves clubs but his style of play has remained largely consistent.
Which means we have a good idea of what Amorim’s style of play and game model would mean for Liverpool next season if he lands the big job.
One of the biggest things changes Amorim would make at Liverpool will be that he favours a three-at-the-back system with three central defenders.
He is likely to do the same at Liverpool and introduce the 3-4-3 that we have seen Amorin use almost exclusively at Sporting Lisbon.
This does not mean in any way, however, that the Portuguese coach is defensive minded and the three central defenders for Liverpool would be expected to be brave and comfortable on the ball when looking to play out from
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