Liverpool will consider offering former coach Pep Lijnders an immediate return to the club after his exit from Dutch side NEC Nijmegen.

Lijnders made a swift departure from the Dutch side after failing to clinch promotion to the Eredivisie last weekend. He only left Anfield, where he was part of Jurgen Klopp’s backroom team, in January.

Klopp is in need of more staff as Lijnders is yet to be replaced and it is unlikely assistant Zeljko Buvac will return.

Much will depend on whether Lijnders sees his future as a No 1 elsewhere rather than in a supporting role.

There is no doubt how highly Klopp rates him. Speaking a year ago, Klopp was fulsome in his praise.

“His main job is being a real coach,” Klopp said in May, 2017. “I’m really happy. I never could’ve imagined that I needed another assistant, but now we have him and I cannot imagine how it would be without him.”

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When Lijnders left in January, Klopp issued a statement saying he was disappointed to lose him from the staff.

“I am gutted to be losing such a valuable member of our coaching team and such a brilliant person from our group,” Klopp said at the time.

Given those sentiments, it is no surprise Lijnders would be welcome back, although he may be exploring other opportunities having stated his ambition to be a manager in his own right.