Iraola held talks with clubs before Liverpool move

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You cannot sell him and choose another one a lot of times."As a player, you have to give extra. This creates a connection and you see they win things.

They have never been relegated."I see a lot of things [similar to Liverpool]. But in a lot of ways I see a lot of things similar."When you include Mikel Arteta, Unai Emery and Xabi Alonso, four of the coaches of the teams that finished in the top 10 of the Premier League last season all hail from the Basque region."They ask me a lot why a lot of Basque managers especially have arrived to this level and why a lot of Spanish teams are winning a lot of things," Iraola said."I always say that a sense of collectiveness is very important.

If you analyse, in swimming, track and field, they don't normally win medals."But in collective sports they are very good. With the national team, they always say tiki-taka, passing, but even in the World Cup you could see them pressing very well, pressing high."Yes, they controlled the game with the ball, but it's the other part without the ball where everyone was doing their job.