Paul Gorst's Liverpool Q&A - Harvey Elliott's future, Yan Diomande talks, centre-back plan

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The ECHO's Liverpool FC correspondent, Paul Gorst, answers all your burning questions in our latest Q&A sessionA new era is approaching at Liverpool as Andoni Iraola continues to wait to start his first pre-season as Liverpool boss.The former Bournemouth coach was given a two-year contract last week to replace Arne Slot and now the Basque has to get to work, with much to do before the players return to the AXA Training Centre next month.As Iraola continues to work behind the scenes and the World Cup gets underway, the ECHO has opened the floor to its readers, to get all their burning Liverpool questions answered.Our Reds correspondent Paul Gorst has replied to some of the standout questions below.What are your thoughts on whether Harvey Elliott will be playing for us this Fall? RB Leipzig were keen last summer but Andoni Iraola's arrival means the new boss will want to get a good look at what Elliott can offer.This pre-season period is vitally important for the boyhood Liverpool fan if he feels a change in the regime might force a rethink regarding his game-time.Iraola said last week that all of his players are 'like new signings', so it will be up to Elliott to make the most of whatever opportunities come his way in the coming weeks.

Liverpool won't encourage that either, because they are delighted with the huge progress he has made in his two years at the club and view him as an important part of a new era under Andoni Iraola.In a season where Yan Diomande's progress at RB Leipzig has, ironically, led to Liverpool interest and talk of fees upwards of £85m, the Reds would likely view Ngumoha, two years younger than 19-year-old Diomande, in similar terms.But no price tag is being placed on Ngumoha, even privately, because Liverpool aren't looking to sell. He is less than a year into his first professional contract with the Reds.What changed with regards to Arne Slot's Liverpool future?

So what happened? - JV John VollmanPG: It's unclear exactly when the change in thinking came from Fenway Sports Group, their CEO of football Michael Edwards and sporting director Richard Hughes, but a U-turn was definitely made somewhere between the final game of the season on May 24 and May 30.A development in the middle of that week claiming Andoni Iraola had broken off talks with AC Milan, because he was holding out for the Bayer Leverkusen or Liverpool jobs, piqued interest because Arne Slot was still in position at the time.As of Friday night on May 29, Slot's camp still believed he would be given the chance to turn things around, which is why many assumed he would remain in place. It's a long window and the World Cup will play a part too.Think back to that first summer under Slot: Liverpool were dead quiet in the market, the narrative all window long was 'we need to assess the squad,' and beyond tying up Mamardashvili for the following summer, Chiesa was literally the only signing they made - and that move reeked of doing the bare minimum just to keep the fanbase quiet.Now Iraola's officially in the door, and in his very first interview he's already talking about 'properly assessing the current squad.' So are we really about to sit through another summer of 'assessment' buzzwords, only for it to fizzle out and leave us exactly where we started? - Mr.ZhangPG: No, I don't think the two summers are comparable.