{"id":588233,"date":"2026-08-09T19:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T19:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/588233\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T19:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T19:46:09","slug":"liverpool-reds-cannot-sustain-level-says-andoni-iraola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/588233\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool: Reds ‘cannot sustain level’, says Andoni Iraola"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iraola has two pre-season games remaining – a double-header against Como on 16 August – before their Premier League season gets under way.<\/p>\n

In two weeks time, when they begin their top-flight campaign at Newcastle<\/a>, the question remains as to who will partner Virgil van Dijk at centre-back. <\/p>\n

Alongside Alisson and Cody Gakpo, Van Dijk made his return against Monaco after an extended post-World Cup break.<\/p>\n

Van Dijk started the game with 18-year-old Ifeanyi Ndukwe, who looks like a terrific talent but will have to go on loan this season due to work permit issues. It spoke volumes that Liverpool<\/a> finished the game with Luke Chambers and Wataru Endo at centre-back.<\/p>\n

Ronald Araujo, 27, underwent his medical on Sunday as his season-long loan move from Barcelona – with an option to buy for around \u00a347.2m – nears completion, while Jeremy Jacquet, 21, is yet to be involved in full training since completing his move from Rennes.<\/p>\n

Jacquet suffered a shoulder injury in February and has recently struggled with a minor knee problem, but Liverpool<\/a> are optimistic he could play next weekend against Como.<\/p>\n

“Jeremy Jacquet, we were in doubt whether to put him in,” said Iraola. “We decided not to, but he should be fine for the next one. It’s taking a bit more time than we were expecting.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iraola has two pre-season games remaining – a double-header against Como on 16 August – before their Premier…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-588233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588233","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=588233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}