Ian Ryan

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1,385 appearances 7 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 3 Aug

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The Anfield Wrap · End Of Season Review : The Anfield Wrap · 30 May 2026 podcast

I figured, oh, they played one of the best I've seen us play for years.

So, there was obviously fitness issues throughout the season and that was one of the reasons why they couldn't, but I think they lost a bit of faith.

But maybe,

I don't know maybe opposition just maybe got onto us a little bit because you know if you're flying them forward then there's going to be gaps so maybe people start to go hang on Liverpool are taking a lot of risks here so maybe started it did the fixtures get a little bit trickier as well I don't know I think it felt to me like they lost faith

quite quickly in what they were being asked to do and then you know they weren't down in any of those games either when they were going down they found it sort of much harder I think to turn it around and then yeah I was surprised by how quickly it

I think he needs a big personality and I think in the absence of leadership from elsewhere, I think he needs to be someone who can show that as well.

So I do feel like did he miss the trick not getting Alonso in?

He's obviously gone to Chelsea now.

Yeah.

I'm not annoyed with him, really.

I don't think you can wait around, you know, forever for a job to come up with if you don't know it is.

So, you know, he wants to work and he's gone there now.

But I think he needed someone of that gravitas, really.

I think the head coach model that they've tried to...

go down is all well and good if everything else above it you know makes sense and is working properly and you know that person's able to come out and speak when necessary and things like that as well if they don't want to do any of that and listen if Richard Hughes does go at the end of the summer then I'll be assigned the source of that not work I think you need you need a manager who you know it is a supporter basically wants to be led and is a supporter basically who wants this figure to get behind and

So I think there needs to be an acceptance of that and go with someone who, that's why I'd worry about Iriola or someone like that, who I think is a very good coach and looks like he can get teams playing.

But I think there needs to be someone of a fair amount of gravitas.

I'm not quite sure who that is in the absence of Alonso or just saying I want Luis Enrique, even though I don't know if he's available or not.

But I think the...

I think you want someone where everyone goes, wow, this is a person I can get behind.

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