Roberto de Zerbi: Brighton manager casts doubt over his future amid strong links to Liverpool and Bayern Munich | Football News

Roberto De Zerbi has forged doubt over his Brighton future by refusing to decide to the Seagulls for subsequent season – and revealing he desires to have talks with membership proprietor Tony Bloom about his subsequent steps.

The Italian supervisor, who took Brighton to European soccer for the primary time this season, has been strongly linked to the soon-to-be-vacant positions at Liverpool and Bayern Munich, after Bayer Leverkusen boss Xabi Alonso dedicated to the Bundesliga leaders on Friday.

De Zerbi will take his Brighton aspect to Liverpool on Tremendous Sunday in a match billed as a possible audition for the 44-year-old to turn out to be Jurgen Klopp’s successor.

Requested if he may reassure Brighton followers that he might be on the membership subsequent season, De Zerbi replied: “I’ve a distinct method to determine my future.

“I wish to communicate with my membership, I’ve a contract however the issue shouldn’t be the contract – the issue is to seek out the identical plan, the identical goal, the identical imaginative and prescient for the longer term.

“For me, I’ve not determined but what’s my future, as a result of I’ve the contract, however anyway I wish to communicate with Tony (Bloom), my membership, to know their plan, to know his plan, the Tony plan. Then we take the choice collectively, with out issues.

“My relationship with my gamers, my followers, I believe it may well’t change relying on the longer term. What we did is historical past and we will not overlook it.

“The longer term I wish to hold my ambition, my motivation, I reside for soccer 24 hours a day, I wish to know what’s the plan, what’s the mission, what’s the future as a result of if I do not really feel snug, I do not really feel the precise motivation, I can not keep any longer.”

De Zerbi was then requested if he would signal a brand new contract at Brighton, he replied: “In the meanwhile, no.

“We did not discover the settlement. The contract is part of the longer term. It is necessary for me, it is necessary for everybody but it surely’s a small half, the massive half is the plan. We have now to talk with the membership.”

It’s not the primary time De Zerbi has been quizzed on his Brighton future. Firstly of this month, the Italian admitted he has “solely Brighton in his head” however did say he’s undecided over his future.

“I’ve solely Brighton in my head. I wish to end this season in one of the best ways, enjoying with not all gamers, as a result of [Solly] March and [Kaoru] Mitoma have each completed their season.

“I’ve a contract and till now, I’ve not determined nothing [beyond this season]. And my focus is on Brighton 100 per cent.”

‘De Zerbi ticks a whole lot of Liverpool’s bins’

Sky Sports activities Information senior reporter Melissa Reddy:

Roberto De Zerbi has tactical acumen and talent to outperform his funds – Brighton have the second-lowest wage invoice within the league however submit possession-domination information that resembles the all-conquering Manchester Metropolis.

Whereas Brighton largely are a distinction to Liverpool’s directness, Alexis Mac Allister, Adam Lallana and James Milner will present testimony that De Zerbi can fuse the Merseysiders’ dynamism with extra management.

There might be query marks over defensive numbers and the way his temperament would stack up in a extra pressured, demanding atmosphere, however De Zerbi ticks a whole lot of the principle bins.

He outperforms assets, has a magnetic persona, performs the sort of soccer that attracts applause from different managers and improves gamers.

Are Liverpool daring enough to hire De Zerbi?

The model with which Roberto De Zerbi has established Brighton within the prime half of the Premier League desk, this season and final, calls for that the 44-year-old coach be thought of for the largest jobs. This weekend, reside on Tremendous Sunday, he takes the stage for what may very well be his Anfield audition.

Pep Guardiola has referred to as De Zerbi “one of the crucial influential managers within the final 20 years” due to his model of soccer. The three-time Champions League-winning coach stated: “There is no such thing as a staff enjoying the way in which they play. It’s distinctive.”

With De Zerbi, there’s an uncommon trajectory in his profession path although. Large golf equipment haven’t come knocking. But.

When Sam Allardyce and Sean Dyche took retro groups into the higher reaches of the Premier League, the priority was that their method wouldn’t be bold sufficient for the perfect.

In De Zerbi’s case, may it’s too bold for cautious house owners?

Read the full feature from Sky Sports’ Adam Bate and Lewis Jones here…