Liverpool great John Aldridge believes that the club board must already have Brendan Rodgers' replacement in mind.

Aldridge expects either Jurgen Klopp or Carlo Ancelotti to take charge of duties at Anfield after Fenway Sports Group parted ways with Rodgers on Sunday.

He told Sky Sports: "I say before you sack a manager you have to have someone in place straightaway, someone on the back boiler and I presume, although I might be wrong, that the owners must have done that.

"They must have done their homework and have been talking to a person in case things went wrong in the way they see things, so I think it's who we have been seeing in the press - it could be Klopp, it could be Ancelotti - so I would think they will be the favourites."