Andoni Iraola's summer plans take shape as new Liverpool boss schedules 'very, very valuable' talks

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Andoni Iraola is eager to get off to a good start at Liverpool, and wants to get to know all of the staff at the club following his appointment as head coachAndoni Iraola is determined to leave no stone unturned as he begins life as Liverpool's new head coach by talking to everyone at the club.Spanish boss Iraola was appointed as Arne Slot's replacement on Thursday, with the Basque's three impressive seasons at Bournemouth seen as the perfect grounding for the top job at Anfield.Iraola arrives to take charge of a Liverpool squad that were bruised by their fifth-placed finish in the most recent season, and he says he will do everything he can in order to find out what makes them tick.With the summer to be dominated by the World Cup, where the Reds will have eight current first-team players, Iraola knows that it is those behind the scenes who could provide him with the most insight in the coming weeks."For me right now, I think it's more than talk to the players. Some of them will be on deserved holidays, some of them will be with their national teams," Iraola told Liverpoolfc.com."I want to talk to the staff, to the people that were here every day, that know very well the players, to arrive as ready as possible to that first day of pre-season."I think especially with a lot of those young players that will do the pre-season with us, a lot of things about the organisation, about the staff, about how we can create the best atmosphere, the best environment so when they arrive [on] day one, everyone feels everything is in place and we can do this process of adaptation, that it will take some time as soon as possible."We are in this process of building the best staff we can.

Now for me, the most important thing is to also know and get into a rhythm with the people that were already here working."Sometimes they don't appear on TV; with all the analysts, the performance guys, all the people that really are in touch with the players every day. I think they are going to be very, very valuable for us."It's true that it's going to be new staff, new people coming in, but I would like also to value a lot the ones that have been here working for the club with these players, that are really the ones that will help us more at the beginning."Iraola added that he won't divert wildly from the pre-season plans that had initially been put in place by Slot."Yes, there was already a lot of work done even before we arrived, and we are trying to change as little as possible for the beginning," he said."Obviously there will be different timetables, some of them depending how far they arrive with the national teams [at the World Cup], they will incorporate later or sooner.

I think everything is in place so everything is quite smooth and there are no problems."FOLLOW OUR LIVERPOOL FC FACEBOOK PAGE! All the latest news and analysis from Anfield on the Liverpool Echo's dedicated LFC Facebook page