Milos Kerkez previews Newcastle opener as Liverpool embrace Andoni Iraola system
Liverpool’s first Premier League assignment of the 2026-27 season arrives with a proper edge to it, away at St James’ Park, against a Newcastle side playing in front of one of the loudest home crowds in the country. There are easier ways to begin,...
Andoni Iraola Confirms Curtis Jones Exit as Cody Gakpo Stays Central to Liverpool Plans
Liverpool’s summer is beginning to take on the shape of a careful reordering. At one end, there is a departure with emotional weight. At the other, there is a reminder that some of the club’s most important attacking pieces remain firmly...
Robbie Fowler sees Alexander Isak as key to Andoni Iraola’s Liverpool rebuild
Liverpool enter the new season in a state familiar to all major clubs and yet uniquely tense when it happens at Anfield, poised between memory and reinvention, between the authority of what came before and the uncertainty of what comes next. In an...
Andoni Iraola’s Wing Blueprint Could Shape Rio Ngumoha If Bradley Barcola Joins Liverpool
Liverpool’s search for attacking depth has quickly become a study in how a coach wants his front line to move. According to Sky Sports Germany, Bradley Barcola remains a target this summer, and that possibility already hints at a wider tactical design...
Florian Wirtz, Alexander Isak and Andoni Iraola: Why Liverpool’s New Shape Could Unlock More
Pre-season can tempt certainty from the flimsiest evidence, but it can also reveal the outline of an idea. In Liverpool’s case, the emerging picture under Andoni Iraola appears to place Florian Wirtz at the centre of it, both literally and conceptually....
Andoni Iraola begins Liverpool journey with first Anfield homecoming
Pre-season can often feel like a series of disconnected exercises, a scatter of flights, sessions and carefully managed minutes, but for Liverpool this weekend carries a little more weight. AS Monaco’s visit to Anfield offers Andoni Iraola his first home game as head coach, and with...
Liverpool Transfer Strategy Leaves Andoni Iraola Facing Major FSG Test
Liverpool have placed considerable faith in Andoni Iraola's ability to improve the squad he inherited, but there is an increasingly persuasive argument that their new head coach requires more assistance from the transfer market.
Paul Joyce of The Times reports that Liverpool's hierarchy remain confident Iraola...
Djed Spence Transfer Talk Leaves Liverpool Still Searching for Defensive Balance
Liverpool’s summer has acquired a familiar shape, one in which need is obvious, solutions appear briefly within reach, and then recede just as quickly. The latest example is Alex Crook reporting that the club are not pursuing Djed Spence, despite the logic of the...
Jamie Carragher on Andoni Iraola, Liverpool Pressure and Why Style Alone Never Decides a Manager’s Fate
Liverpool have moved quickly into a new era under Andoni Iraola, and the early conversation already feels familiar. Style, identity, energy, entertainment. All of it matters, of course. But only up to a point. Results still decide everything, and...
Bradley Barcola to Liverpool: Why He Is Not a Straight Mohamed Salah Replacement
Liverpool’s interest in Bradley Barcola makes sense. Calling him a Mohamed Salah replacement does not.
That is the point Jamie Carragher made, and it is hard to argue with it. His verdict was clear: "No he plays on the opposite flank! LFC currently...
