Andoni Iraola is now "demanding" specific January signing to take Liverpool to the "next level"

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The Reds have a good group of players currently, with youngster Trey Nyoni becoming an important figure and being hailed by Iraola after Wednesday’s 6-3 win away to LASK in the Champions League: “Trey is a player that I think, being very young with not a lot of minutes in the first team, he’s very mature. Tactically, I think he’s really smart.

He has been involved, I think, in most of the last games, but he has to keep this level of performance, of training. “If he has to play as a six, as an eight, he has to play one minute, he doesn’t have to play, he has to start and play all the game like yesterday – he has to be there, putting pressure also on the other midfielders.

“And I think it’s very good for us that we can put [in] these young players with not a lot of experience and they can perform in a competition like the Champions League or in the Premier League.” Despite Nyoni’s rise, a respected source on X has now claimed that a defensive midfielder is at the forefront of Iraola’s thinking ahead of the January transfer window, as he looks to take his side up a gear: “Andoni Iraola is demanding a new number 6 in January. He is a very different player from anything I have seen before.