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Liverpool have one major Andoni Iraola worry fans must be prepared for

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Add us as a preferred source on Google to your favourites list for news you can trustAndoni Iraola needs time at AnfieldThe evidence on the table from Iraola’s time at Bournemouth suggests the 44-year-old is the ideal stylistic fit to bring aggressive, front-foot football back to L4.However, after a season that effectively saw Liverpool backtrack significantly, it’s clear the manager has a lot of work to do to steer the ship back in the right direction.Houghton went on to add on the subject of the ex-Cherries boss taking over: “He’s going to have to turn it around quickly and it’s a tough job. “He’s not going to have the players for quite a while.



You’ve got to recuperate, you’ve got to get the lads fit and healthy again.“When does he actually get his first true group of Liverpool first-team players together to work with them, to talk to them about his philosophy and how he wants them to play this season? One thing in a phone call, someone ringing you up and saying, ‘Hello, I’m your new manager, by the way I think you may not have done this or you may have done that last season,’ that’s not going to work.

“It’s going to take him a wee while, so I think the Liverpool fans are going to have to be very patient at the start. You might have to wait a little while before everyone’s up to speed and the manager’s got his point of view and how he wants Liverpool to play across.”FSG have to give Iraola the players to fit his systemIf we’re to return to the kind of press-intensive football of the Jurgen Klopp years, numbers will be an absolute priority for our new head coach.That’s the main concern we have around reports that Liverpool may end their spending in the offensive line if and when Yan Diomande’s signature is secured.To put it bluntly: that would be a mistake of epic proportions.