🗣 Andoni Iraola on if he understand what it means to be a Liverpool manager
“Yeah I want to think I understand. Probably until when you are here and until I go through certain experiences, I will not fully know. But I'm here to experience those situations, I'm ready for it."
🗣️ Andoni Iraola on if he sees a situation where Harvey Elliot's future is now at Liverpool again
“Definitely. Harvey is here with us, I have seen him with this eagerness of showing himself, getting himself ready again.
He will have a chance during the preseason..
We will need him and it's a good sign he came one week earlier. He has been training with the U21 and I hope we can see him in a good place.
I think last season had to be very difficult for him because it was a strange situation where basically they couldn't even put him to play
...To be with a lot of players from the Academy, players that in other situations maybe I wouldn't know as well, and now I will have the chance to get to know them personally, training every day with them, in some friendlies, and it's going to be good information for me.”
🗣 Andoni Iraola on the players are going to come back later than others due of the World Cup
" I think it is what it is. We cannot change it. I think players deserve a break. The ones that have been in the World Cup, they deserve at least three weeks so they can enjoy their...
I think this progressive introduction also will allow me maybe to get more in touch with every player. And also will give, especially the young players, some players that have been on loan, more minutes during pre-season. The first part of pre-season, basically it's going to be..
...I am also using this couple of weeksI've had before we start properly the first team trainings, to talk with a lot of people around that work every day here.”
Reporter: what do you feel the squad needs in terms of reinforcements?
🗣️ Andoni Iraola: “obviously we've signed two players already, but we need more players, we know this. The club is working on this.
As a coach, selfishly, you want the players here on day one, ready to...
"Especially the ones that have already been eliminated and are enjoying their holidays.
I didn't want to disturb them or bother them while the World Cup was ongoing, but I think it has been a very good conversation...
🗣 " and we have to be a team that we know works hard, intense, aggressive, vertical, so everyone can be identified, everyone can feel comfortable supporting this team.”
🗣️ Andoni Iraola on his style of play and what he is hoping to produce at Liverpool
“ I would like to give them a team they can feel proud of.
I think football and especially Liverpool for me is about connecting.
Connecting with the people, connecting with our supporters...
🗣 "I've been on the other side at Anfield, I've experienced it, I always say the goal that [Federico] Chiesa scored in the first game of the past season. you can feel the stadium. I would love to have this every game we play, and it has to come from us, from inside the pitch...
Btw I'd happily take leao over diomande.
Thats a future balon d'or winner right there, He just to be in a better team and a needs a proper coach to belive in him