Andoni Iraola defends transfer strategy and reveals Liverpool turned down options

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Liverpool’s outlay did not include a right back, defensive midfielder or right-winger but Iraola, who believes Barcola could be deployed in Mohamed Salah’s old position, insists the club’s approach was correct.“I’m very happy with all the signings we’ve made,” said the Liverpool head coach. But I’m happy now I know what we have, I have a lot of quality in the team and now it is the moment for us, for the players, for me to develop what we have.”Despite the absence of a natural right-winger – Liverpool explored deals for Yankuba Minteh at Brighton and Ismaïla Sarr at Crystal Palace – Iraola is confident Barcola, Victor Muñoz, Cody Gakpo and Rio Ngumoha can provide sufficient cover.He said: “I think we’ve preferred at the end to have the best players, probably, than a player that maybe is specifically for that [right-sided] position.

I’m very used from my previous teams to demand for all the wingers to play both sides.skip past newsletter promotionafter newsletter promotion“Probably all of them have played more on the left, but I would say I’ve seen them in a good place on the right. Probably Rio is more specific from the left side, but I think he has also showed the willingness to improve and play on the right.

Even Bradley, he’s very open and I think he can play right and left. I’m happy with the four wingers we have and I’m sure we are going to be able to cover those two positions.”