James Pearce: January Transfers Liverpool COULD MAKE To Boost Andoni Iraola Rebuild

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Thank you so much for choosing to watch this clip. I was joined by the excellent James Pearce. We spoke about a whole manner of different things, including his re-release of his brilliant book, Walk On, that addresses the on-the-slot situation at Liverpool, and indeed the appointment and the hiring of Andoni Iraola and others. But in this clip, we spoke about the upcoming January transfer window, what Liverpool could do. If you want to check out the full show, head to Redmen Plus app. You'll hear us talk about the book, the season so far, and much, much more. See you soon. I want to do a quick sort of temperature check and a bit of a review really of how it's going. In your opinion, James, and also in terms of the feeling from the club itself, really, if you like, because the appointment and Andoni Iraola, based on a few of the things you've already mentioned, hoping for an upturn in fortunes, hoping for bringing back a style of play that we can't recognize, as we mentioned, early days, again, still some fine tuning to be done, but do you think, again, those in situ and yourself, do you think it's moving in the right direction and we're happy with the direction of travel?

James Pearce (3:49)

Yeah, I do. Yeah, yeah. I think there's a fair bit of optimism and positivity that Andoni Iraola has managed to install in a relatively short period of time. And I feared for him a little bit in the summer just because the manner of the pre-season with the World Cup and players coming back late and trying to bed in new signings and also inheriting a bit of a mess really in terms of where Liverpool were at the back end of last season. And I think when you factor in everything he's had to deal with, I don't think we could have asked for an awful lot more. Yes, there's still weaknesses that we can all see in terms of the balance of the midfield at times. I think that's a real conundrum that he's still wrestling with. I don't think we've really scratched the surface yet in terms of trying to get the best out of Bradley Barcola and left back. I think there's understandable concerns about that.