Man management and 'a bottle of magic' - How Iraola can step up at Liverpool
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To view this content you can use the button below to allow Captivate cookies for this session only. 'One of the biggest challenges in world football'"I think he's ready but ultimately we don't we don't know how ready he is because everything is completely different," said McAdam. He's going to walk into a Liverpool press conference and suddenly he's going to be faced with 25, 30, 40 journalists maybe even more on a Champions League night.
He's very down to earth, he's very humble he's quite a quiet, shy guy but is he ready and right for it? It doesn't really get much better than when you're at those big clubs because they're the ones that are expected to challenge in every single competition."So Iraola now has a very different mindset that he has to have."Interestingly with Iraola, he doesn't have individual relationships with players.
So he's a very different style of man manager and obviously it's completely worked at Bournemouth but again it's one of the many questions that will now be posed - can that style of management translate into a club like Liverpool where you've got players that have won the Premier League, you've got players that have competed in the Champions League, competed at the highest level for their national side?"[The Liverpool players] are not someone that is on a little bit of money that's desperate for the chance to improve and develop. In the end, you've got Bournemouth fans going into games against Liverpool and Arsenal and Man City thinking, 'We'll win today and even if we don't, I know that we're going to be brilliant to watch'."If Iraola can bring that little bottle of magic that he had with Bournemouth and take it to Liverpool and create that atmosphere... then the rest will start to follow."And I do hate to compare it and mention Jurgen Klopp but that's exactly what Jurgen did when he arrived at Liverpool.