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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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It is the Anfield Wrap. Neil Atkinson here with Joel Penny, Jake Nolan and Sean Rogers. We're going to run the rule over Liverpool's squad in the context of the managerial change. Who might benefit from it? Who should be looking forward to the new season? Who may have to wonder whether or not it might suit them? We're going to go through everyone who plays for Liverpool.
in that sort of context and see where we end up.
Chapter 2: What opportunities does Iraola see in Liverpool's current squad?
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Chapter 3: Who are the players on the fringes of the Liverpool squad?
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Chapter 4: How might the managerial change impact Liverpool's style of play?
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Also to come, Community Gardens in the Palm House. It's gorgeous, you know, I had a lovely time. It's only on until about the 20th of June. So get down if you can. Absolutely drop dead gorgeous and unbelievable work there from so many organisations around. We're highlighting a couple on the video and it was a pleasure to go and be invited.
So we're going to look at these Liverpool players and the impact that they all can have on them. We need to have seen them play, so I'm not doing Jacques because I just don't think it's quite fair. I am going to allow the 70 minutes of Giovanni Leone because it was the greatest 70 minutes of association football ever. Everyone has won on the matter.
So if you can just extrapolate that 70 minutes, but we'll get on to him in a minute. It was good, wasn't it? It was. Oh, it really was. We'll start off with the goalkeepers. Joel, we'll start off. You know, thinking about Iriola's Bournemouth side, they do want to push the line. And I think that opens up questions for both the keepers.
I think there's one who's got a career of showing he's remarkably confident coming off his line, but he has been injury hit. The other one appears to have hips made of wood. So it is, there's going to be something to work on there, I think, for Mamadash Filiu. I think it could do with an injection of confidence. I've just done the joke there and I feel a bit cruel.
It's no time to start arriving at a football club when it's in a bad way, if you're a goalkeeper, because you're going to be exposed. The one thing he could do with it is get a bit of confidence in him, but he is going to be possibly even more involved in all facets of play if what we've seen from Iriola at Bournemouth is extrapolated into Liverpool.
Yeah, no, definitely. I think, you know, a prime Alisson's ready-made, isn't he? As you said, he's quick off his line. He's confident on the ball. And that's probably where Mamedashvili is sort of lacking. I mean, I'm not completely, you know, out with Mamedashvili. I think there's still a good goalkeeper in there.
I think what you say, though, about not coming off his line, I can't get that Beto chance out of my head at the Hildickey. It was like the opposite to Luis Alberto in Brazil 1970, where he just appears into the shot of nowhere. I was waiting for Mamadashvili to come into that shot and he just never came. So he is going to have to improve on that, but I think it is, you know, improvable.
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Chapter 5: What is the significance of the Community Gardens project at the Palm House?
I think there's a different job for the manager, I think, with each of them. I've got sympathy with Mamadash for the last season because when it feels like the whole thing's fallen apart, as a coach, there's only so much you can do. There's only so much you can work on. Little time between games.
And so you'd end up in a situation where you just need this fellow in goal just to do his best for you because you've got other stuff. And I thought he looked like a fellow who could have done with more coaching, could have done with the set-up being a little bit different, could have done with a bit more support in the set-up.
people remembering he's left-footed wouldn't have hurt from time to time. But it's the off-the-line stuff that just doesn't instinctively seem to be there for me in the way in which maybe you could do with it. Alisson, on the other hand, needs, I think, some looking after from the fitness element.
He needs a little bit of guiding through and it's down to Mariola to get the balance between these two things.
Yes, I think what pervades all of this is that you can look at what a coach has done elsewhere and you don't want to fall foul of being what I call like Ruben Amerind on this, that you think that he goes into another club and everything's got to be exactly the same way that it was at his last club and everything's bolted down in terms of systems and things, but...
I think Iriola said in his first interview, didn't he, that I'll have to make changes and tweaks here. But I think his core principles are going to remain. So if you think about that from his goalkeeper, they're going to have to be able to sweep and come off the line. The biggest threat is dealing probably with 1v1s, which we know these are all big ticks for Alisson, of course we do.
And then you've got to be able to play with both centre-backs. And you also know that lots of opposition are going to come and press Liverpool and try and stop Liverpool from doing that. With Mamedashvili... He sort of resembles that old Sabucio goalkeeper a little bit, unfortunately.
sorry it's a name drop but my partner on my UEFA B course was Xavi Valero at the Liverpool Academy and Xavi was brilliant and he actually showed me all the work he was doing with Pepe Reina at the time so I'm really biased because I think he's a top top coach and when I saw the minutiae of the detail he was going into with Pepe Reina they had cameras installed above Anfield by Rafa and Xavi would watch the videos
analytics era or the point at which analytics is beginning he did it all himself so he'd watch the whole game back and every time the ball moved opponents or Liverpool he would monitor Rayner's movements and he marked him and he actually then the following season had said I assume he did this he was pushing for Rayner to have a bonus
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Chapter 6: How are the Liverpool goalkeepers expected to perform under Iraola?
And it's only really February before the manager can begin to get a grip of them. And it feels as though maybe things are too far gone then. If you haven't got time, that's the tough thing. But Alisson is staying. So there should be time to keep working with Mamedashvili. I'd actually like to see him get a few more games, but in controlled environments from a Liverpool point of view.
Not, we're just going to lash it in because the big fella's got an injury.
yeah you know on a human level i've got tons and tons of sympathy i think like it's it wasn't a battle of laughs for him last season probably wasn't how he saw his big move going in his career and how things are going but on the other hand i just don't i just don't know when there is a perfect moment for a number two colleague to come and take the number one spot you know what i mean it's got to improve from now exactly and i think there's almost got to be a bit of chaos if it's going to work you know it's almost got to be i'm taking his shirt i've come in i've done a good job and
and I think he's a fine goalie for maybe 14, 15 teams in the league but I do question if he's a fine goalie for Liverpool just because it's square pegs around the holes a little bit you know if we're going to be playing high up the pitch we're going to be doing those things I don't think you should be getting Coach Stout to come off your line playing for Liverpool FC I think that's maybe something that happens
way way way further back in your in your development that being said if he was going to come in and start doing those things nobody'd be happier than me i'd love to see it but i'd be if we were sitting here and we hadn't sold kellerhead 12 months ago i'd be a lot more confident i'd be a bit like okay we've got two goalies here who can look like they can play on the areola system and one who can come in and kind of do what the other one can do in it in a slightly less good way and he's getting better and i would actually say maybe mamadash really got worse as the season went on but you
I think he did. Yeah, which is never a great sign. And I think we've all got to accept, I think I might have said that on another one of the shows, I don't think there's a... I think with Alisson, as long as he's going to be staying with us another year, another five years, who knows? I think you've got to accept that it's not a number two goalie, it's like a 1.5.
So if we're sitting here now, I think we've got to be thinking, this fella's good enough to play 20, 25 games next season. And I hope that he is. I hope that it's marked improvements. I think your mate might have to be busy. But let's see. I think part of it though might be, which we don't know, is how much of it was, wow, this is a big club. Wow, I'm now trying to take Alisson's place.
And then in difficult circumstances for him, how much of this might be down to his confidence and us not seeing the true version of him. Only those internally would really know that. I completely agree with everything you said in terms of especially the instinctive side of his goalkeeping. That would be a huge concern.
I think what Liverpool need to do is... I think Liverpool need to control when he plays more rather than being forced by circumstance. So I think...
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Chapter 7: What are the prospects for Liverpool's defenders this season?
Florian Vert is a problem for me here. So it's more about where you ask Florian to defend, but it's also, if Florian does play off Izak, he's got to get in the box. He has to, because otherwise Izak has two centre backs...
that can manage him what Izak wants is Florian Wurz passing to him but then Hugo Ekotike getting it he wants that 10 to transform like Clark Kenton to Superman because Izak needs someone occupying the other centre back because he might lose one but he ain't losing both he doesn't want the other centre back covering his runs so
I think with Florian, once the ball's in wide areas, you've got to be coming into the box and helping Izak occupy them. So it's actually as if they use him in a different role. Yeah, I could see Cody making good use of him there.
The two nines that we've currently got, who are theoretically available for Liverpool to start a pre-season, are Alexander Izak and Jadon Zanz. It seems odd to pair them. But the reason why I wanted to pair them for this is because I think they've got two things in common, which is, I think we can talk about Iriola, but the most important thing for both of them is fitness.
You know, I think it is, it's defined by that. Joel and I are very, you know, of the view, I really feel sorry for Dan's last year. Firstly, he watches Liverpool go and buy two number nines. Then, both number nines in different ways have really injury-hit seasons, but then so does he. And I'm not saying that Dan's, if everything was to come together, would be good enough.
but it'd be nice to find out. Including for him as a human being. You know, if he could be fit for pre-season, he's hopefully back as quickly as possible. I'm not interested in Sweden doing well in the World Cup. Thank you very much.
It's hard to get knocked out of this World Cup. I know, I'm up next about a Jake to get out of here. They're likely to get Brazil. Sweden to lose 4-3.
He's going to get hat-tricked over and over again. The Swedes, man of the match every single game, but goes from there. But, you know, it is about the fitness for the two of them.
I think Joel, listen, I think if Isaac's fit, this, you know, the manager's showing a Bournemouth, again, it is a Bournemouth, but he was very happy to have a lad who was a number nine and he maybe didn't get involved that much, but my God, did he get him some chances? He just missed them last season, Evan Nielsen, he misses loads of good chances.
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