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Iraola’s preference is to name the team on the morning of the game and he saves the post-match debrief with his players for the day after the match.
There is a sense of pragmatism with his media interactions, too, after a situation where his comments to LFC TV following a pre-season friendly against Monaco were widely reported.
Iraola conceded Liverpool had run out of steam after 30 minutes and did
West Ham boss Nuno Espirito Santo says the club bought £22m record Championship signing Arne Engels to eventually play in the Premier League.
Engels, 22, is set to make his debut against Charlton on Saturday following his recent move from Celtic.
The Belgian scored 17 goals and contributed 22 assists in 100 appearances during his two years with Celtic, and Santo insists the Hammers have bought him for the long
Engels is West Ham’s fourth summer signing after the recruitment of Venezuela midfielder Keiber Lamadrid, Dutch defender Joel Veltman and Israel winger Manor Solomon.
West Ham director of player recruitment Nils Koppen told the club website:, external “Arne is a player we have been tracking for some time as a key target.
“For a player who is still very young with his best years in front of him, he
“I would imagine that he’s probably at this minute doing the medical. Naturally disappointed, really, that he’s leaving the football club, he’s done very well for us.
“And it’s hard to dissuade him of that. If it hadn’t come up, I think he’d have been happy. Even though the offer came in very late from Nottingham Forest in January, he never moaned about it at all.
“So it’s an opportunity
Salah has the selfish streak and pride that is the preserve of all the greats – as was seen when then Manchester United manager Erik ten Haag, a Dutch countryman of Slot, dropped Cristiano Ronaldo at the end of his second spell at Old Trafford in November 2022.
Ronaldo’s response was to give an interview to Piers Morgan on TalkTV in which he complained, as Salah has effectively done now,
For the third game in a row, Slot chose to bench Salah, with Szoboszlai starting down the right in a 4-2-3-1 formation.
Liverpool had positive spells in the first half and were comfortable in possession but struggled to get past the Leeds low block.
The likes of Cody Gakpo, Florian Wirtz and Ekitike failed to test Lucas Perri in the first half, though Curtis Jones did strike the woodwork with
Slot has not had to go looking for problems as Liverpool have slumped this season, despite spending almost £450m in the summer.
But the biggest landed when Salah decided to go public with obvious fury at his treatment.
Salah uses his words carefully and strategically. At most matches since arriving at Anfield from Roma in 2017, he has declined requests to talk to waiting reporters.
This only changes at Salah’s
“That’s a normal reaction from a player that’s good enough to play for us, and I say that mildly because he has been so outstanding for this club for so many years and will be for the future,” Slot said.
“He wasn’t the only one who wasn’t happy that he wasn’t starting and that is normal.”
Slot said Salah “handled himself really well” despite being dropped.
“He is so disciplined
Despite Liverpool’s poor run of form, sources have told BBC Sport that Slot’s position is not under imminent threat.
He has credit in the bank following his Premier League title-winning debut season, while there has been reflection at Anfield that it was a difficult summer of the club with Diogo Jota’s death and the £400m investment attempting to regenerate the squad.
Sporting director Hughes and chief executive Michael Edwards were
The 3-0 defeat by Nottingham Forest at home on Saturday was bad but the loss against PSV was arguably the low point of Liverpool’s season.
“Liverpool seem to keep finding ways to hit new lows under Arne Slot, and of course, that is leading to questions around the manager’s future,” Josh Sexton of Liverpool fan group the Anfield Wrap told BBC Sport.
“He will accept that as part of the