From the sack in Cyprus to Liverpool: Iraola's first job explained

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Speaking to David Catala, who played under him at Larnaca, including in that final game, he did see promising signs."He already had very clear ideas of what he wanted," Catala tells Sky Sports. "You saw it and, for sure, all the players were speaking about how he was going to become a fantastic coach.

To say that he would be at Liverpool? His first foray into the managerial game with Larnaca put him outside of his comfort zone, even if there was a Spanish constituency in the club.

I was able to play there until I was 38 years old because that rhythm was not so high." Iraola had a different vision of the game, learned under Marcelo Bielsa in Bilbao."When Andoni came, it changed." Image: Andoni Iraola attempted to introduce a pressing game during his time at AEK Larnaca Catala explains: "Everything was more explosive with him, more rhythm, more intensity. But he would have learned many things from his experience in Cyprus about how to manage situations.