Jamie Carragher names three Liverpool players he’s worried for if Andoni Iraola takes charge
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Slot has left some wreckage behind… Hugo Ekitike, Alexander Isak and Florian Wirtz could struggle under Andoni IraolaSpeaking on The Overlap Fan Debate on Tuesday morning, Carragher said: “My worry with that, is when we’re talking about Iraola, we go back to that style. “Now, when we’re saying the football wasn’t great, you’re right.
He had a lot of attacking players on the pitch.“My thing is now Isak, Wirtz, Ekitike, I’m not sure they are those type of players. That’s my worry.“When we said the football was slow, the press wasn’t there.
Isak doesn’t press.“Ekitike doesn’t really press. So you almost brought these talented players in, and they couldn’t play this style that we associated with Klopp, we saw bits of in his first season, and Liverpool went the other way.”Iraola’s high-intensity training and style have already been mentioned as a positive for Liverpool after their poor form last season.But Carragher is correct to mention that we never really saw anything like that from Slot’s team in 2025/26.Away from the style of play, though, Iraola will have the difficult task of trying to fit Ekitike and Isak into the same eleven.The Frenchman is expected to miss several months of next season due to injury anyway, but when he does return, it is hard to see how both he and Liverpool’s record signing can play together.Iraola likes to use fast, aggressive wide players in his system, but moving Ekitike or Isak out onto the left as Slot did on occasion last term would hamper his tactics.The alternative is benching one of the big-money strikers, but that is unlikely to go down well with either player.Regardless, it is already clear that Liverpool will need to sign some new, quick wingers to suit Iraola’s system if they are to give the Spaniard the best chance of turning things around come next season.On that front, Yan Diomande wants to secure a transfer before the World Cup, but the Reds have competition from PSG.Join Our NewsletterReceive a digest of our best Liverpool content each week direct to your mailbox