Andoni Iraola

Enzo Maresca: Man City titles ‘absolutely not tainted’

The Premier League leaders potentially face a severe points deduction that threatens their place in the English top flight

The Nations League and the wider set of international games staged across the globe have been accompanied by a daily list of casualties, club officials viewing matches through their fingers as players pull up and gesture to the bench

Liverpool are not yet the overwhelming, suffocating force Iraola hopes they become but they did enough to claim three points here, Alexander Isak capping a peculiar performance with a simple finish

As Liverpool stuttered and stalled towards the end of Arne Slot’s reign, they were nearly caught by the rising force on the south coast

Lewis Koumas led the line as Alexis Mac Allister, Cody Gakpo and Dominik Szoboszlai fired Liverpool past Tottenham in the Carabao Cup

Iraola is unlikely to field the same frontline of Alexander Isak, Bradley Barcola, Florian Wirtz and Víctor Muñoz when Tottenham visit in the Carabao Cup third round on Tuesday

Liverpool 0-0 Fulham: An attempt at rotation backfired for the Liverpool manager as the visitors earned their first Premier League point

The £116 million Germany international has one assist and no goals in the Premier League so far but Iraola insists Wirtz’s contribution should not be measured by numbers

Jose Mourinho's Real Madrid secured a narrow 2-1 victory over his former side Inter Milan in a high-octane Champions League opener on Tuesday

Mac Allister revealed unhappiness over his contract situation before Liverpool’s Champions League opener against Atlético Madrid on Wednesday

Following an entertaining Tuesday night, tonight’s fixtures will feature FC Barcelona opening their campaign along with last season's finalists Arsenal and Paris Saint-Germain

It’s a whole seven years since Spurs proudly announced their new “Official Supplier of Toiletries” as London company Molton Brown

For all the pre-match talk and excitement surrounding Liverpool’s star signing of the summer in Bradley Barcola, Friday night under the Suffolk lights was finally time for the joint-most expensive purchase in English football history to make his first significant mark in Merseyside red

Barcola joined after three seasons with Paris Saint-Germain but came through the ranks at Lyon, where interviews are conducted with returning youth players at the start of each campaign

It was another chastening result for De Zerbi, whose expensively assembled team suffered an embarrassing 3-0 defeat at Brentford in the opening game of the season a week earlier

Man City target Cody Gakpo but one hurdle remains for Liverpool to sanction sale

Naturally, then, he’s been taking himself off to places where he’d expect to be greeted by somewhat friendlier faces, like in Vietnam last week

Nottingham Forest were full value for the second 2-2 draw of Iraola’s tenure as Liverpool demonstrated they need sturdier foundations as well as the decoration of £123-million Bradley Barcola

Iraola takes charge of his first comepetitive game at Anfield as Liverpool boss while Oliver Glasner also searches for his first win as Nottingham Forest manager

Liverpool struggled to find the right balance in midfield during last weekend’s 2-2 draw at Newcastle

However, further negotiations on Thursday night ended in an outline agreement being reached over a compromise fee

Liverpool have a customary management meeting at the start of September, just after the transfer window closes, and the tone of it is currently subject to one main aim

Manchester City under a new manager were poor and fortunate to overcome Bournemouth

Liverpool’s season started at Newcastle, paying tribute to a man who scored hat-tricks for both clubs, in Kevin Keegan

Al Hilal target Martinelli and Watkins in £100m bid to reclaim Saudi crown

City produced a stirring late rally in Maresca's first Premier League game in charge, scoring twice in the final 10 minutes to grab a 2-1 win at home to Bournemouth on Sunday

Alexander Isak received a hostile welcome from Newcastle United fans as he returned to St James' Park with Liverpool for their Premier League clash

Matthias Jaissle will take charge of his first Premier League game when Newcastle face Liverpool on Sunday

The new campaign gets under way on August 21 when champions Arsenal host promoted Coventry City, with Liverpool’s first game at Newcastle United two days later giving their fans the first chance to see what their Spanish boss can do at the helm

Chelsea invest heavily under Xabi Alonso, spending £117 million on Morgan Rogers to end four years of underachievement

Mikel Arteta wants to get his messaging absolutely right

At age 33, Fabian Hurzeler is the fifth longest-serving coach in the Premier League — and he has only been at Brighton for two years

One of the most open Premier League title races begins this weekend as English football’s 2026-27 season kicks off

Wirtz did not hit the heights of the legendary Liverpool No 7s before him in his debut season, but the German is buoyed by a new presence in the dugout for his second term

After Liverpool beat Wrexham and Sunderland during a pre-season tour to the US, a 4-2 defeat against Leeds brought back memories of the struggles at the back last season

The Liverpool midfielder upped his already impressive level last season, being named the club’s player of the year, but collectively the team went into reverse with Arne Slot losing his job as a consequence

Andoni Iraola’s first preseason tour as the Liverpool head coach produced wins over Sunderland in Nashville and Wrexham in New York before ending in a 4-2 defeat against Leeds in Chicago

Iraola was in his element as he immersed himself at the centre of every training drill that Liverpool performed at Chicago Fire’s Endeavor Health Performance Center, their base for the past two weeks in the US

Andoni Iraola took charge of his first Liverpool game over the weekend in a 4-2 win against Sunderland

The sight of Joe Gomez hobbling off after 10 minutes of the new head coach’s first game and two teenagers forming a raw central defence partnership in his absence intensified the spotlight on a department in need of work

Over coffee in Liverpool’s plush hotel in Chicago, Andoni Iraola presents his theory for the phenomenal success of Basque and Spanish coaches

Jeff Bezos could reportedly invest some of his significant wealth into Liverpool

The midfielder has entered the last two years of his current deal and Liverpool were at risk of either losing him on a free transfer or being forced to sell him for a cut-price fee

Liverpool bid farewell to Mohamed Salah, Andy Robertson and Ibrahima Konate at the end of last season, and have only added Jeremy Jacquet and Victor Munoz to their ranks so far this summer, while transfer guru Michael Edwards announced he was leaving the club for the second time last week

New head coach Andoni Iraola is trying to complete a £120m double deal for wingers after arranging to sign Victor Munoz from Osasuna for £34m

When Virgil van Dijk set a world record, he had never played in a World Cup

Arne Slot rejects Fulham approach amid Netherlands link

Andoni Iraola will restore Jurgen Klopp's heavy metal football at Anfield

Happily for Liverpool, they’ve plumped for a man with those initials rather than a rapidly growing technology that has been expertly designed to fill billionaires’ pockets

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