There’s a job opening in the Premier League, and surprise, surprise, Jurgen Klinsmann has come up again as a potential candidate to fill it.
Not surprisingly, the report in the UK’s Mirror that mentions the current US national team boss as a potential to take over for sacked Aston Villa manager Paul Lambert doesn’t cite any sources, anonymous or otherwise – outside of a betting line. But nonetheless, it lists Klinsmann along with former Tottenham coach Tim Sherwood as a possible successor to Lambert.
It was met with appropriate skepticism:
We’ve been down this road before.
In November 2013, Klinsmann was linked to Tottenham, where made two different stops during his playing career. That came shortly after he was reportedly on the short list of candidates to take over the Swiss national team.
Of course, Klinsmann inked a four-year contract extension before the World Cup that also made him the team’s technical director. Klinsmann lives in Huntington Beach, Calif., and his son, Jonathan, is working his way up through the US national team youth ranks.
Needless to say, it would seemingly take quite an offer to lure the German back to Europe.
