Reports on Saturday suggest that Andoni Iraola is set to be appointed as the new Liverpool manager following the sacking of Arne Slot.
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It didn’t take long after Liverpool had announced the sacking of Arne Slot for the likely identity of his successor to emerge.
According to reports, outgoing Bournemouth boss Andoni Iraola will be taking up the head coach position at Anfield this summer.
Liverpool’s decision to confirm Slot’s departure was hardly surprising given how far the club has fallen in the last year or given the persistent rumours of unrest in the first-team dressing room. Regardless, his sacking signals a remarkable decline for a manager who won the Premier League only 12 months ago.
In his debut campaign in England, Slot guided Liverpool to the title, but this season he only just managed qualification for the Champions League. There are tonnes of extenuating circumstances – not least the decline of superstar forward Mohamed Salah, and the death of Diogo Jota last summer – but nothing can take away the feeling that this was the right time to part ways.
And the immediate talk is that Iraola will be the new man in the dugout. The Spaniard has moved on from Bournemouth following the expiration of his contract this summer, and he is set to be appointed at one of the biggest clubs in the world. One of the people behind the decision is Liverpool’s sporting director, Richard Hughes, who was technical director at Bournemouth when they appointed Iraola in 2023.
The Spaniard did a fantastic job on the south coast, breaking Bournemouth’s top-flight points record in each of his three seasons there. Last week, he secured Bournemouth’s first foray into Europe with an unprecedented sixth-place finish, which broke the record for their best-ever league position – a record Iraola had equalled a year before (ninth).
He built a team capable of beating the best while playing an exciting, forward-thinking, high-pressing, and progressive style of football that is both easy on the eye and effective.
What’s more, he did it while Bournemouth consistently sold their best players. Last summer alone, they lost four of their first-choice back five, with Dean Huijsen, Milos Kerkez, and
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