Liverpool's Bradley Barcola transfer pursuit approved but Reds told they're still lacking

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"If there was anyone that could give us that familiar sort of grit and fight and directness on the wing, as to what we had with [Sadio] Mane and [Luis] Diaz, it would be him."He's very direct, he's very, very quick, and the thing is he's coming out of a team that, I would like to say, is similar to Liverpool, where it's pressing football.Andoni Iraola has been warned he still needs leaders in the dressing room(Image: (Photo by Andrew J. We want to get back to that, and he's a player that has had that since Luis Enrique's come in."It's the approach under Slot which Heskey reckons ultimately sealed the Dutchman's fate at Anfield.

The ex-striker harbours considerable optimism that incoming manager Iraola can restore the brand of football Liverpool supporters yearn for."It's a difficult one because with Arne Slot winning the league, that should buy you a bit more time, but I just thought the style of football just didn't suit one, the players and two, the club," he admitted."We've been such an aggressive team of late, especially under Jurgen. I understand that that's not his style of football, and he probably wanted to try and implement a little bit of a change, but it just didn't fit the players."I think he [Iraola] can make the step up.

At some stage we've got to look at that."We can't be looking and thinking that someone's going to play forever. They've got top people up at the club who will be looking at that."They're well paid, and they're well staffed and resourced to look at that, but we need to start looking at that side of things, especially when it comes to defence and ageing players and who's going to be the next leaders."We've lost [James] Milner, we've lost [Jordan] Henderson, we've lost now Mo Salah.