Milos Kerkez makes 'intense' Andoni Iraola training admission as first impression in

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Andoni Iraola is already putting the Liverpool players through their paces in preseason, drawing similarities to Jurgen Klopp's first full summer in charge as head coachMilos Kerkez has discussed the intensity of Andoni Iraola's training session(Image: 2026 Liverpool FC)Liverpool defender Milos Kerkez has revealed how intense Andoni Iraola's training sessions have been during preseason, drawing comparisons to Jurgen Klopp's first summer in charge.Iraola and the Liverpool roster have landed in Chicago to begin their preseason tour of the U.S., with stops in New York and Nashville scheduled before returning home. The majority of the roster is in the U.S., though, and Kerkez has described the intensity after the very first Chicago session.Kerkez was asked to reflect on the first session after landing in Chicago, and revealed that Iraola would put the Liverpool players through a double session the following day.

So, a nice first day and then onto tomorrow to the double sessions."Content cannot be displayed without consentWhen asked about preseason as a whole, Kerkez added, "We have everything to be happy for a good and big preseason, so, like I said, a good session. Speaking on That Peter Crouch Podcast, Milner revealed that some players couldn't handle the sessions, but those who could, improved.James Milner revealed that players would throw up due to Jurgen Klopp's intense training(Image: 2022 Liverpool FC)"Bit by bit, this squad changed, developed, his ideas came through," Milner said.

One of the first international breaks, I was suspended or something for England, so I couldn't play, so I was at the club, and I think two of the boys threw up in one of the first sessions we did."The tempo was just through the roof. You're playing with one ball here, and he'd kick another in, and he'd say, 'New ball,' and you all had to sprint to that one."The number of sessions... he always used to do a double after a day off in the early days... these aren't sessions where it's like coming out of a tinkle, it's like sprints.