Carra meets Iraola! Liverpool boss on playing style, transfers & Newcastle

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We are used to doing these things.Let's take the positive things about this, but we need something also different and that's what we are trying to do.What I find interesting about your team, because you're very famous for pressing and how your teams are off the ball and you have a mixture, like a hybrid sort of system, of at times man-to-man marking and at other times, zone marking?It's true, I always say, if you go straight away man to man, most of the teams will play long and then it's a matter of winning the second balls.I want if they go long, to have one more than them so I want sometimes to give the plus one, but also you have to be aggressive enough to sometimes arrive to man-to-man situations. I know these demands and I want to think we are going to be probably not 100 per cent on Sunday, but good enough to get results That's the advantage, when you are in a place in the first year, you have to change a lot of things.

Second year, you already have a base of players that already know it, they will help the ones that are in the third year, and my last two projects have been three years in Rayo Vallecano, three years in Bournemouth, so normally you go [about] improving, but I know also this is Liverpool, they are not going to wait 10 games until this gets going.I know these demands and I want to think we are going to be probably not 100 per cent on Sunday, but good enough to get results.I've seen a quote from you in that you said you didn't enjoy your playing career with Athletic Club as much as you should, or you were too hard on yourself, because it was your club and that's exactly what I used to think when I was a player at Liverpool?When you play for your club, you feel responsible of everything and you think everyone is looking at you in every second, every moment.You have to be perfect. Now it's probably late, and I wouldn't like this to happen when I'm a coach.That's probably one of the things why I'm ready almost to take risks, because I don't feel that pressure that I felt when I was playing.You mentioned about being a manager and taking more risk - would you class yourself as one of the riskier, you go for it more on the front foot and are more proactive?

I prefer to be a good team and win things than to be entertaining.A lot of people say 'it's very entertaining to see', but I always say, I prefer that you tell me 'you are very good, you are solid' and I want to think that our teams and my teams always have been quite organised. I think the quicker we understand things, the more complete as a team we can be.We can change things live in games, we don't want to wait until half-time to change things because if you are ready, everyone understands, you can just do three things, and then we change the approach.Sometimes I love it when players come to me, and they tell me 'no, they are doing this, I think we should do this' - that's the moment where you think 'OK, now we are getting it, we are there'.Your style of football is probably a little bit direct, or the first pass forward, so it lends itself to maybe a more transitional game - is the big challenge for you as a coach, certainly at Liverpool now, to almost have a little bit more control of the game and be less transitional?