Liverpool Thread | 2025/26 | Iraola becomes unlikeable (p397)

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Callmev said:
Yeah, Iraola will do just fine. Huge boost for the murdering cunts.
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He requires a huge amount of fitness and expending physical effort, which the Bournemouth players had in spades.

Do Liverpool have that these days? Maybe Iraola will change his style but someone like Wirtz doesn't strike me as a player in his image, for example.
 
Still need two centre backs, and arguably two full backs.

Scott has been linked with united also and I think would find it hard to turn down a big move. But again, it's their defence that needs the most attention, and I'm not sure how they go about that.

Maybe with a fully recovered isak and a new gaffer they'll be refreshed, but I can't see them getting by on that defence for a whole season in 4 competitions. It may need them to be again the king's of spending this summer.
 
With all the public support the board have given him it's a strange one. If they were planning on it, why bother with the repeated public support? Could easily just say nothing. Makes them look like snakes and incompetent.

Alonso was right there, why didn't they have him lined up seeing as that is who they've wanted to replace klopp in the first place. Gutted if Iraola goes there, on paper he fits them like a glove, better than Alonso. They'll have a much better chance of being competitive again very quickly if he goes there. Still got a lot of problems with the squad but he'll get more from what they have got.
 
BlueMerlin said:
Slot out. Makes you wonder how much of last season’s title was down to Klopp. Slot spent a fortune to improve a title winning side and made it worse.
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All of it. Let's be honest, it was pretty much Bingo's team that he inherited. Compare to this season; they spent the GDP of a small nation last summer, and they scraped into the CL in the last (at that point) qualifying spot; Villa hadn't played their Europa League final at that point. By general consensus, we had a "meh" league campaign, and we finished 18 points clear of them. Levels, I guess.
 
Merlin's Magic said:
Iraola's style is closer to Klopp's gung-ho style. His Bournemouth team's pressing and off the ball work was tremendous. If he can replicate that there, it will be very tough to beat them. But, it's easier said than done. A big club appointment doesn't always work for managers like him. Overall gutted if they get him, he came across as a likeable bloke and a better manager than Slot!
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There's a pattern of managers who've done well at smaller clubs moving to larger clubs, where there is more expectation and bigger egos, and where they haven't got the same sort of support network they had at their previous clubs, and fucking up.
 
jimharri said:
All of it. Let's be honest, it was pretty much Bingo's team that he inherited. Compare to this season; they spent the GDP of a small nation last summer, and they scraped into the CL in the last (at that point) qualifying spot; Villa hadn't played their Europa League final at that point. By general consensus, we had a "meh" league campaign, and we finished 18 points clear of them. Levels, I guess.
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You could say the same about Pellegrini inheriting Mancini's team.
 
bluetonium said:
Still need two centre backs, and arguably two full backs.

Scott has been linked with united also and I think would find it hard to turn down a big move. But again, it's their defence that needs the most attention, and I'm not sure how they go about that.

Maybe with a fully recovered isak and a new gaffer they'll be refreshed, but I can't see them getting by on that defence for a whole season in 4 competitions. It may need them to be again the king's of spending this summer.
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Fully recovered? Isak is a Darren Anderton MK2.
 
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