Liverpool vs Leeds United: Iraola Looks for Calm and Control in Chicago
Pre-season can be a strange old business. One minute you are talking about shape, sharpness and minutes in the legs, the next you are dealing with frayed tempers and a squad that suddenly looks thinner than anyone would like. That is where Liverpool...
Liverpool Predicted XI vs Leeds: Wirtz, Isak and Gravenberch in Focus
Pre-season can be a scruffy business, full of changed teams, heavy legs and half-finished ideas. Even so, there are times when it offers a proper glimpse of what may be coming. Liverpool’s meeting with Leeds at Soldier Field feels like one of those nights.
Andoni...
Curtis Jones to Inter Milan: Liverpool Weigh £30m Exit Amid Transfer Talks and Szoboszlai Flashpoint
Inter Milan are growing in confidence over a deal for Curtis Jones, with Liverpool facing a situation that increasingly points towards a decision in the coming days rather than the closing stages of the window. According to TeamTalk, the Serie...
Curtis Jones Calms Liverpool Fears as Pre-Season Training Puts Armband Row to Bed
Pre-season breeds noise. A glance, a gesture, a player looking irritated for a few seconds, and suddenly everyone wants a crisis. Liverpool have had that with Curtis Jones after the 1-0 win over Wrexham at Yankee Stadium. He looked annoyed, and the...
Andoni Iraola’s Liverpool Selections Reveal Early Plans for Lewis Koumas, Kieran Morrison and Ifeanyi Ndukwe
Pre-season is usually full of noise and very little certainty. A couple of friendlies, a lot of changes, plenty of tired legs, and fans trying to work out what matters and what does not. Still, when a new head coach...
Dominik Szoboszlai says Andoni Iraola has restored Liverpool intensity
Liverpool have won two pre-season games, 1-0 against Wrexham and 4-2 against Sunderland, but the more important development may be cultural rather than cosmetic. Dominik Szoboszlai has said plainly what many around Anfield wanted to hear, that intensity is back under Andoni Iraola.
The Hungarian midfielder did...
Trey Nyoni Focus as Liverpool Beat Wrexham 1-0 in Another Positive Andoni Iraola Outing
There is a particular sort of daftness reserved for pre-season. Staying up into the small hours to watch a friendly falls squarely into that category, and yet supporters still do it because they want a glimpse of what might be coming....
Liverpool Predicted XI vs Wrexham: Andoni Iraola Forced Into Youthful Defence
Liverpool head into their next summer outing against Wrexham with a familiar pre-season issue, availability. The win over Sunderland offered some useful signs, but Joe Gomez going off injured inside ten minutes changed the picture quickly.
Right now, the defensive numbers are thin. With Ibrahima...
Liverpool Transfer News: £48m Midfielder Set to Join Premier League Club
Whilst a lot of talk has been on Liverpool's need to bolster their attacking and defensive depth this summer, the midfield department still needs serious work.
It was a clear weakness in the abysmal title defence under Arne Slot. Both Ryan Gravenberch and Alexis Mac...
Liverpool 4-2 Sunderland: Joe Gomez injury exposes defensive need as Kieran Morrison and Federico Chiesa give Andoni Iraola key answers
Andoni Iraola’s opening weeks as Liverpool head coach were always likely to be shaped by first impressions, emerging themes and early warning signs. In Nashville, a 4-2 victory over Sunderland delivered all three. There was...
