Frank de Boer is the latest European manager to show interest in managing Liverpool, a move that will inevitably intensify the pressure that Brendan Rodgers continues to come under following a poor start to the season.

De Boer, the Ajax manager, was considered for the Liverpool job before FSG, the Merseyside club’s owners, appointed Rodgers as Kenny Dalglish’s successor in 2012, but his interest in the position remains and his admission that he is “looking maybe for another adventure” will alert potential suitors to his possible availability.

With Jürgen Klopp’s camp also intimating that the former Borussia Dortmund manager would be interested in taking over at Liverpool in the event of the job becoming available, it isn’t just results that mean Rodgers is facing a