Jamie Carragher makes FSG Jurgen Klopp claim after Liverpool move for Andoni Iraola

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Jamie Carragher, the Liverpool great, has been writing about the arrival of Andoni Iraola and what it says about the club's powers that beLiverpool legend Jamie Carragher believes the appointment of Andoni Iraola shows the club's owners FSG are searching for the next Jurgen Klopp.Arne Slot led the Reds to the Premier League title in his first season in charge after taking over from the legendary Klopp. However, his second season was fraught with difficulties and, while he guided the defending champions to a top-five finish and Champions League qualification, that was deemed insufficient by the club's decision-makers.Before the Dutchman's sacking departing star Mohamed Salah said that he wanted to see Liverpool go back to being a "heavy metal attacking team that opponents fear and back to being a team that wins trophies".It was a clear dig at Slot, who the Egyptian had infamously fell out with earlier in the troubled campaign, and it was a clear reference to the football played by his predecessor Klopp.Now Carragher, writing in his column for The Telegraph, claims the Anfield powerbrokers have also shown a want to return to that style of play with their move for Iraola, who will be making the biggest step up in his managerial career after working wonders at Bournemouth over the past three years and Rayo Vallecano.The 43-year-old has been appointed due to him best fitting the profile of introducing a front-foot, aggressive identity to the team left behind by Slot.And while Carragher accepts that Iraola's Bournemouth side resembled how Klopp like to play, he adds that to reduce the German's "success as a world-class coach to high-pressing, aggressive, front-footed football is a serious misrepresentation of why he was so great, and why he and Liverpool were such a perfect fit", arguing his leadership was just as important.Discussing the appointment of Iraola, Carragher wrote: "There is sure to be detailed analysis of how Iraola’s teams play in the coming months, just as there were for Slot’s Feyenoord when he moved to Anfield.

Getting a tune out of £100m signings who expect to play is different from managing up-and-coming youngsters who treat Bournemouth as a stepping stone toward a bigger, higher-salaried club."Iraola may prove to be one of the great coaches of his era in Europe, whom Liverpool are recruiting at the perfect time, but he is a work in progress. This is rather like headhunting Klopp direct from Mainz, bypassing all the invaluable experience he gained at Borussia Dortmund, which meant by the time he landed in Liverpool in 2015 he was the finished product, and his presence was felt in the first press conference."When Iraola was strongly linked with Chelsea, my impression was it was too soon and he would benefit from joining a club who were playing in European competition, adjusting to the demands of three games a week in readiness for the next step.

Instead, he will encounter challenges at Liverpool which he has never faced."It is interesting to note, for example, that Bournemouth won only one more game against the bottom three last season as they did the top three. Iraola is reminiscent of the 2012 appointment of Brendan Rodgers from Swansea City, Ultimately, there is an irony: if Iraola manages to replicate Slot’s first-season success rather than live up to any Klopp comparisons, hiring him will be a stroke of genius."also think match quite well (with) what Liverpool has been during a lot of years that I think we can make it work."FOLLOW OUR LIVERPOOL FC FACEBOOK PAGE!