'The next Liverpool manager': Fabrizio Romano names Arne Slot successor

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Andoni Iraola is heavily linked as the next manager of Liverpool after the bombshell news that Arne Slot has been sacked by FSG effective immediately. TEAMtalk reported on the 20th of May that despite Slot’s future was “not as secure as the club’s public messaging has suggested.” The latest Andoni Iraola to Liverpool news amid breaking Slot announcement Fabrizio Romano was the first to break the news that Liverpool had sacked Slot, and in a follow-up report on X, he shared the news that Iraola is set to become the next manager.

He reports: “Andoni Iraola, set to become the next Liverpool manager as revealed earlier today! Andoni Iraola, set to become the next Liverpool manager as revealed earlier today!

The negotiations will move forward quickly to get it done with formal steps but #LFC decision made… …Iraola will be the next manager. ?? pic.twitter.com/r4K1xRnxDP — Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) May 30, 2026 This matches what Ben Jacobs has reported in that Liverpool plan to return to a “more front-foot, aggressive and urgent style of football.” Iraola: Inexperienced at the elite level, but he matches Liverpool very well Unlike Klopp when he joined Liverpool, Iraola does not have extensive experience of managing a team to league titles or into the latter stages of the Champions League. Liverpool are by no means to guaranteed under Iraola, or another manager, but it’s a step in the right direction after months and months of regression under Slot.