It's fair to say Pep Lijnders still has some work to do to convince as a manager after he was sacked by Red Bull Salzburg just a few months after taking charge of the Austrian side.

Lijnders won just 13 of his 29 matches in charge of Salzburg — a team that is accustomed to success after winning the Austrian Bundesliga 14 times in the last 18 years — and leaves with the team sitting in fifth place in the league, and 32nd in the new 36-team Champions League table.

The Salzburg job was Lijnders' second foray into management, and his first didn't go particularly well either: Lijnders became the manager of Dutch side NEC in January 2018 and was sacked four months later after failing to gain promotion to the Eredivisie.

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Lijnders gained a brilliant reputation as an assistant to Jurgen Klopp across his two spells at Liverpool, and many expected him to impress as a No.1 after years working under one of the best managers of his generation.

Time will tell if Lijnders can make a success of his managerial career, but one thing that is for certain is that Klopp regarded him extremely highly during the pair's time together at Anfield.

Lijnders' departure at the end of last season was confirmed at the same time as Klopp's, and at the time the German had high praise for the 41-year-old.

"The most influential guy in the last years at this club was definitely Pep Lijnders," Klopp said. "The job he did is absolutely exceptional. The inspiration he is for me is absolutely exceptional."

Coincidentally, Lijnders and Klopp were due to resume a working relationship of some kind in the new year, when Klopp will begin begin a new position as Head of Global Soccer at Red Bull, but a reunion with his old Liverpool assistant is now no longer on the cards following Salzburg's decision on Monday.