‘He will make mistakes…’ – Jamie Carragher has one worry about Andoni Iraola at Liverpool

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ON APPLE & GOOGLE PLAYIraola will embark upon his first Champions League campaign as a coach in a few weeks’ time, which brings with it eight midweek fixtures between September and January (plus any knockout phase involvement thereafter) and the challenges of balancing domestic and European commitments.Carragher concerns over Iraola’s lack of European experienceSpeaking to Football Ramble, Carragher raised apprehensions about how the new Liverpool boss handles that balancing act when he’s never experienced it before.The former Reds defender said: “In an ideal world, I would have loved Iraola to have had a couple of European campaigns, won a trophy, been involved in a cup final, but at the moment maybe those managers aren’t about.“He will make mistakes because he’s not managed a European campaign. How does he rotate?

Does he rotate in the 12:30 game on a Saturday after an away game on the Wednesday? Does he stay with the team?

Does he come straight back after a game?“These are all things I remember as a player that players will complain about to managers and staff, and if you’ve never really had that before, you’re still learning on the job and still learning those little details.”Want more Empire of the Kop coverage? Also, even the most successful managers in the game were once rookies who had to – taking Carragher’s phrasing – learn on the job.We fully trust the LFC boss to handle the dual commitments of domestic and European football with competency and learn from any misjudgements which might occur along the way.