{"id":537026,"date":"2026-07-07T06:49:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T06:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/537026\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T06:49:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T06:49:25","slug":"journalist-tells-liverpool-fans-what-to-expect-from-pablo-de-la-torre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/537026\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalist tells Liverpool fans what to expect from Pablo de la Torre"},"content":{"rendered":"

One member of Andoni Iraola\u2019s new backroom team at Liverpool has been described as a \u2018fiery character\u2019 who could be liable to \u2018pick up a few bookings\u2019 over the course of next season.<\/p>\n

As expected, the Reds\u2019 new head coach has recently been joined by four members of staff<\/a> who worked with him at Bournemouth, with coaches Tommy Elphick and Shaun Cooper, analyst Tom Webber and fitness coach Pablo de la Torre all following him from the Vitality Stadium to Anfield.<\/p>\n

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The latter gave a compelling insight on Arne Slot\u2019s successor<\/a> in an interview with Spanish media, hailing his \u2018almost unique\u2019 reading of the game, and LFC fans have now been given an informed insight on some of the new faces in L4.<\/p>\n

What can Liverpool fans expect from De la Torre?<\/p>\n

Alexander Smith, senior sports reporter for the Bournemouth Daily Echo, spoke to The Athletic<\/a> about the four men who\u2019ve joined Iraola\u2019s backroom team at Liverpool, and his comments on De la Torre were particularly noteworthy.<\/p>\n

The journalist explained:\u00a0\u201cPablo is a fiery character and isn\u2019t afraid to express his feelings. Expect him to pick up a few bookings for his protests on the bench. He\u2019s massively trusted by Iraola and so important in terms of ensuring the squad can cope with the physical demands of playing his brand of football.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s intense, the way he wants his team to press and stay on the front foot. Being able to sustain that for 90 minutes isn\u2019t easy. At Liverpool, there\u2019s going to be the added workload of Champions League football. Pablo will have a big part to play, especially over the course of pre-season.\u201d<\/p>\n

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How well will Liverpool adapt under the new coaching regime?<\/p>\n

While we have full trust in Iraola to appoint the backroom staff that he sees fit, Smith\u2019s insight on De la Torre includes a couple of minor alarm bells.<\/p>\n

One is the fitness coach\u2019s apparent propensity to accumulate yellow cards for his boisterousness on the touchline, and it seems that he might be liable to getting caught up in scenes similar to those which saw Slot and Sipke Hulshoff shown red cards<\/a> at the end of the tempestuous Goodison Park derby of February 2025.<\/p>\n

The intensity that De la Torre is likely to instil at Liverpool may also be an issue throughout a season in which the Reds will be involved in four competitions, potentially playing upwards of 60 matches depending on how far they progress in knockout tournaments.<\/p>\n

What worked for Iraola at Bournemouth \u2013 who up to now haven\u2019t had to juggle domestic and European commitments \u2013 isn\u2019t guaranteed to translate seamlessly at Anfield, and there\u2019s a balance to be struck between finding the right intensity and not burning out players too early.<\/p>\n

It should be noted, though, that those methods came as a culture shock to the Cherries squad at first before they ultimately adapted to terrific effect, and one Reds player in Milos Kerkez will already be familiar with the training regime of LFC\u2019s new coaching staff.<\/p>\n

Just as it was for the south coast club three years ago, the next few weeks and months will be an adaptation period for the Liverpool players, who hopefully will respond to Iraola\u2019s methods as brilliantly as Bournemouth\u2019s did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One member of Andoni Iraola\u2019s new backroom team at Liverpool has been described as a \u2018fiery character\u2019 who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-537026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}