Liverpool fans have been given an insight into the tactics both Julian Nagelsmann and Ruben Amorim could bring to the club.
The Reds are on the lookout for a new manager after Jurgen Klopp shocked the football world in January by announcing he will leave the club in the summer.
Xabi Alonso had been the firm favourite to take the reins on Merseyside, but he confirmed he will remain at Bayer Leverkusen for at least one more season.
Sporting Lisbon manager Ruben Amorim is now a rumoured target for the Liverpool hierarchy.
Though Brighton boss Roberto De Zerbi and Germany manager Nagelsmann are also in the running for the job.
talkSPORT’s European football expert Kevin Hatchard has given fans an understanding of what both Nagelsmann and Amorim could bring to the Reds.
Speaking on Trans Europe Express, Hatchard said: “I think Xabi Alonso was going to be one of several and may well have been the leading candidate.
“They were keen on him, but Julian Nagelsmann is a name I thought was appropriate when Jurgen Klopp first announced he was going to leave.
“I was asked about Nagelsmann up against Xabi Alonso, and I felt at the time, to an extent I still do, that if you’re talking about track records, if you’re taking about what they have done as coaches, Nagelsmann is there.
“He is the man who has been a coach since he was 28 at the top level, and a very good youth coach before that.
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“And he is also somebody who got RB Leipzig to the semi-finals of the Champions League and won trophies at Bayern Munich.
“He knows how to deal with high-pressure environments, and I think he learned from what was a very bruising situation at Bayern.
“I felt he was jettisoned far too easily and very unfairly, though he knows the political game.
Hatchard also spoke of Sporting boss Amorim, delivering high praise the way of the Lisbon-born tactician.
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“I can understand why Amorim is being linked with the job because he plays very aggressive football, and football which relies on good work without the ball.
“They do press high, so there are some parallels there, but nobody is going to be a direct replacement for [Jurgen] Klopp.
“Either in terms of the charisma of the man, but also the style, it is a very hard style to copy and replicate, and I don’t think the new coach should try to do that.
“So, Amorim has done really well with Sporting, winning the title and pushing for it again, and he also knocked Arsenal out of Europe last season.
“He has also got Sporting to the knockout stage of the Champions League before, so this is a guy who has a good CV and is understandably one people are excited about.”