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Let's see if the former Liverpool midfielder, Danny Murphy, will express some concerns, Eva, over Iraola getting the Liverpool job. He has done an amazing job, and as I said, I love watching his teams play. The only thing I'd say is I'm not sure how much he'd been involved in the recruitment, which has been phenomenal at Bournemouth. So, you know, losing players is one thing, but then replacing them with really good players as well is That's not just him, that's the staff at Bournemouth, the team they've got there, how well-run they are. But, the only reservation with a manager like that is to do with the
big club expectation and the big players dealing with them. He's never had to do it. And it's a bit like when you're a player, you go from a club where it's nice and it's comfortable, and then you go to a big club, and all of a sudden the expectation and pressure on you is immense. It's something he'll have never experienced, cuz once you're the manager of Liverpool, you're a worldwide-known person. Every interview, every word you say, people are analyzing. We saw it, didn't we, in a little way, I suppose, this season when um uh Thomas Frank went to Tottenham, he struggled with that expect It looked like he was struggling with the pressure.
Um and I think that's the only question mark over bringing in somebody. His football's great, but he's never managed at a big club. He's never had his life um been in be He won't have had intrusion in his life. Everything he says is going to be put out there for the world to hear. He's interviewed more than he's ever been before. He's going to have to learn on the job with that, and that's the only area I would be concerned about with any manager coming into Liverpool who's never been at a big club before. Uh Danny Murphy there expressing some concerns about Iraola getting the job. And of course, there's always concerns.
You There is no such thing as a guarantee. There's not. I know you're looking at that. Well, you can't count You can't counterattack when you're manager of Liverpool. So, there's counterattackers and there's managers who know how to win a game of football. Yeah. They've got the tools. Bearing in mind, you've got the best players. You've got the best players sat on the bench. Some of them are better than the ones you've got on the pitch. Yep. And everybody comes against you and parks the bus. Just imagine that every week we're playing against a team that just parks the bus. They've got no ambition to score a goal ever. Nil-nil is the best they can hope for. How long can we hang on for?
And you're out on the pitch, right? And the manager Okay, I asked you for the break. What's the manager that's out there, right? So, be realistic now. Don't say Pep, okay? Well, Don't say Pep. Why? Like so, you're Liverpool, right? There'd be no Pep's just had 10 years at Man City. He's not going to go straight to Liverpool. Only certain people can manage Liverpool. Okay, give me a realistic name. Well, if I'm the recruitment team at Liverpool and I sack Slot, before I've sacked him, I've got to think to myself, right. would have had to think of this.
Yeah, they would have thought this bloke don't know how to win games every week for Liverpool. I mean, I go a step further, right? I went to Galatasaray and I played for Benfica. You can't just win. You got to win 4-0. Yep. You got to win with a bit of style. And every week there's no such thing as a draw. You can't draw. Away from home, I played for Derby, I played for Oxford. You're allowed to have a bad run of results. You're allowed to A draw away from home is not bad. That's a point. Who's the man? But Liverpool is a disaster if you draw. But it's
So, you've got to have a manager. I can't explain Danny Murphy, what he just said there is that's from a voice of a man who's played for a top club. You have. You know what it means to play for a top club. The rules are different, right? You've got to win every single game. I but if you got to know how to do it. what manager? I think Right, so hang on a minute. All right. There's a shortage. All right, well, I'll go. You think of people who know how to win football matches and they know how to take the game to the opposition. They know how to break parking the bus down every week. They know how to do it.
So, you go like I would start So, Liverpool can pay the manager whatever they want. They're the richest club, not the richest club, but they can They pay They've got the biggest wage bill. Great. Yeah. Right? So, I would think, right, if we're going to sack Klopp, who can we get? So, I go Do you think we can get Jürgen Klopp back? Let's try him. Right, we can't get Jürgen Klopp. What about Pep Guardiola? Can we get Pep? You know, honestly, this is what I'd start thinking.
Right. Could I get If we got any of them two, we're going to win. We're going to win games and leagues. Right? Can't get him. They've said no. Pep says no. I'm having a couple of years off. What about Enrique? No, don't want to leave PSG. I think they would have probably gone through this process. Right. What about Mourinho? Proven winner. Would you take Mourinho? Proven winner. Not the manager of Bournemouth. No, but He would never manage Bournemouth.
None of those players Those managers would manage clubs halfway up the league. So, I would go through the list Ancelotti. Would he leave Brazil at the end of the World Cup and come manage us? I would go through that list before I started going into Alonso, Gerrard, Areola, Yeah, okay. young managers. All right. I would start at the people who know how to win football matches, and by the way, you can handle people like Ronaldo. Trying to handle a player like Ronaldo.
I've Jason I was at Newcastle with Michael Owen, Alan Shearer. Graeme Souness was the manager. Imagine trying to handle I got I get it. But the two of them They're such good professionals, they were easy to manage. Then when you go down a peg or two, that's when you get a few problems. But when you handle it, they are thoroughbreds, these players. You have to treat them differently. You have to know how to treat them. Ancelotti obviously knows what to do. So, when you're at a big club, the man in charge, you have to have total respect for him. In the back of my head, all I can see is Van de Ven and Spence turning their back on Thomas Frank. When he Can you remember it?
Yeah, no, I do. No, no, he And they walked off the pitch. Yeah, yeah, and but that club I think that club is in a very different space to where Liverpool are right now. the respect for Thomas Frank? No, I know, but I think that club is in a space very different space. I do. That to where Liverpool are now. Yeah, but Yeah, but you know what? Bournemouth at Brentford, when he saw into Embolo and he's talking to these players he signed, they all respect him. And then he goes to Spurs and Van de Ven's going, "What have you ever done? Who do you play for?"
There is that. When we will find out. 03717223344. Let's get a quick call. Let's go and Oh, 100% Mo. Where's he been? 100% Mo. How are you, BUD? MO. YOU ALL RIGHT, MATEY? YOU ALL RIGHT? I'm all right, matey. Where have you been? Kenny, I've been here. I've been ringing you up, Kenny. Come on, Kenny. You know the Do you know what it says here? 100% Mo and then there's a slash 100% coward. Kenny. I'm just telling you what it says, Mo. Kenny, first of all, Kenny, let's give Mr. Slot uh the congratulations. Thanks for everything he did for us. You know what?
Top man. But it didn't work out for him. Correct. But Areola, you know what, Kenny? The quad is on next season, Kenny. The quad is on. You watch the boys going to go. The goals are going to be flying in, Kenny. Forget that I mean, I understand where you guys are coming from, the experience. Forget that. the guy is going to play rock and roll football and you watch Sunday. He's reckoning he's Wherever we go, wherever we go Sunday, it's going to be gold and we're going to hammer your lot to absolutely four or five or six or seven nil Sunday. And we'll be all over and Mr. Alonso Sunday will be out of a job by Christmas
cuz your lot will sack him again, Sunday. Mo, thanks for the call. Make sure you keep in contact throughout the summer. Jason, I think I'm obliged to tell the listeners out there. Come. Right. I played for Liverpool. Uh And we had Ronnie Moran. Graeme Souness was the manager. Ronnie Moran, Roy Evans, right? And apparently they said the same things for 30 years. When we went out on the pitch, there was no like loads of tactics. They would say, "Right, lads. We've got the best players in Britain. Here, in this dressing room. This team are going to try and stop you winning today. They're going to park the bus.
Find a way of beating them. They can either You can either play through them. You can go around the outside of them. Yeah, yeah. Or you can go over the top of them. So, work it out for yourselves, lads. There is that. You're top players. That's what they used to say. Is he the man? Who? Ibriola. Who knows? It's a gamble. It is a gamble, man.
