Iraola will make Liverpool fans excited again - Murphy
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Former Liverpool midfielder Danny Murphy feels the Reds will be in a much better position next season than they were under Slot."I'm quite excited because after watching Bournemouth play, there's no reason to think he's not going to try and play the same way - in terms of being courageous and on the front foot and trying to press teams with high energy and play attacking football," Murphy said."When a fanbase becomes disillusioned with a manager and his style of play - and then start turning on him - you're delaying the inevitable. But will Iraola - who joined Bournemouth from Rayo Vallecano in Spain - succeed where others have not?"I do have a couple of reservations because he's never managed a club of this size before and he will be a little bit surprised at how intrusive it will be on his life, when you manage Liverpool," Murphy added.
"Large parts of last season I wasn't excited to watch Liverpool. I wasn't excited to go to Anfield and I certainly wasn't excited for pre-season or the start of next season.
We might be sitting in this situation in two years, saying it didn't really work, but I'm excited with the project and that's what all fans want to be."Following Slot's departure, Liverpool were keen to make an appointment at the earliest possible opportunity and wanted a manager who fits their preferred playing style, which is to deliver front-foot, aggressive football. "I think the construction of the squad last summer - and potentially with the additions we do this year - we have to find a manager for the squad and I very much think we didn't have that last season."You would have liked to have seen [Iraola] have some experience in Europe, but then he's never really worried about reputation or who he's playing against."That doesn't seem to bother him, so I think the fact that he's fresh to all of that, he'll go into it invigorated and there won't be a hangover over previous campaigns where things have gone wrong."