Andoni Iraola gives Bradley Barcola injury update after £123m Liverpool winger limps off

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We are kind of rushing him a little bit as he hasn’t played any minutes in pre-season.“We want him there but at the end we decided for him to give us whatever he has and let’s see now how they recover for the next one, as we play again in three days.” A protracted transfer saga with PSG finally ended last week when Barcola arrived at Anfield for an initial £106m, with a further £17m in add-ons.Barcola made his first appearance for the Reds when he came off the bench during his side’s 2-0 victory over Ipswich Town on Friday night. When asked about the Reds’ new No.29 on the eve of his side’s game against Atletico, Andoni Iraola revealed Barcola is ‘ready to play more minutes’.He said: “Yes, I think he played overall with extra time 31 [minutes] maybe or something like this [at Ipswich].

I think he’s ready to play more minutes.“He has been training quite normally. I think he can play more minutes definitely.“I don’t see him like limited, no, I see him like a normal player with this circumstance that he hasn’t had a lot of pre-season minutes to build his form.

But I saw him playing very well and I think he is ready to play more, yes.”While ahead of kick-off, Iraola told TNT Sports: "I think it’s true that he hasn’t had the pre-season minutes, but I like what I saw from him the other day. I think he’s been training well, so I think it was a good game to put him in straight away."I don’t think he can probably finish the game, we’ll see how he does, but we need some freshness, and I think especially outside with Rio and Bradley, we can have these difference-makers."