{"id":727319,"date":"2026-08-04T15:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T15:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/727319\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T15:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T15:34:10","slug":"i-cant-wait-dominik-szoboszlai-hungry-for-liverpool-reset-under-andoni-iraola-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/727319\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I can\u2019t wait\u2019: Dominik Szoboszlai hungry for Liverpool reset under Andoni Iraola | Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dominik Szoboszlai believes last season\u2019s frustration can push Liverpool<\/a> to challenge for the title again but admits the squad must produce \u201csomething special\u201d if no reinforcements arrive before the transfer deadline.<\/p>\n

The Liverpool midfielder upped his already impressive level last season, being named the club\u2019s player of the year, but collectively the team went into reverse with Arne Slot losing his job as a consequence. The poor title defence from a team that won the Premier League comfortably in Slot\u2019s debut season should, Szoboszlai insists, prompt a reaction in Andoni Iraola\u2019s debut campaign as Liverpool head coach.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t wait [for the new season], honestly,\u201d said the Hungary captain following Liverpool\u2019s pre-season tour of the US. \u201cI feel that we are ready to go again and take motivation from last season because it was not the best. We didn\u2019t end up where we wanted to. So now we\u2019re going to go for it again.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone is motivated. I think I see in everybody\u2019s eyes that he wants to play and, if you want to play, you have to give your best. And from there the manager is going to decide who is going to play. But everybody is on zero right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Liverpool have added the central defender J\u00e9r\u00e9my Jacquet and the versatile forward Victor Mu\u00f1oz<\/a> this summer but, while they remain in pursuit of Paris Saint-Germain\u2019s Bradley Barcola, a squad that has seen Mohamed Salah, Andy Robertson and Ibrahima Konat\u00e9 depart as free agents remains light in several positions.<\/p>\n

Szoboszlai said of Liverpool\u2019s transfer activity: \u201cIt\u2019s not my job to tell you who we have to sign or if we have to sign someone. If the guys above and the manager decide to sign someone, then we are very happy and are going to welcome him \u2013 or them \u2013 well. If they decide not to, then we have to do something special with this squad.\u201d<\/p>\n

Liverpool\u2019s new head coach, Andoni Iraola, cuts a thoughtful figure during the US pre-season tour Photograph: Geoff Stellfox\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

The Liverpool midfielder revealed Iraola prefers not to address his players in the immediate aftermath of a game, a trait he discovered after the pre-season friendlies against Sunderland<\/a>, Wrexham<\/a> and Leeds<\/a>. \u201cHe doesn\u2019t speak after the game,\u201d Szoboszlai disclosed. \u201cI think every manager is different in his own way. That\u2019s how he is. He always would rather speak the day after the game, which is fine for everyone. We have to get used to this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Iraola has also not spoken to Szoboszlai \u2013 or any other player for that matter \u2013 about filling one of the vice-captaincy positions vacated by Robertson and Salah. But the 25-year-old, who captained Liverpool on the US tour, says it would be a huge honour to be asked.<\/p>\n

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He added: \u201cThere hasn\u2019t been any conversation. We have Virgil [van Dijk] as the captain, we have Ali [Alisson], we have Joe Gomez [as vice-captains], so there was no conversation at all. Obviously Ali is not here and Joe is injured. Let\u2019s see. It\u2019s not fixed. If you get offered the vice-captain of Liverpool, you\u2019re going to take it. It would be a proud moment for me but I respect everybody. Whoever it\u2019s going to be, we\u2019re going to follow them.\u201d<\/p>\n

The captain\u2019s armband became an issue for Curtis Jones when Szoboszlai passed it to Kostas Tsimikas during the win over Wrexham in New York. But Szoboszlai, who recently signed a new five-year contract at Anfield, insisted there was no problem with his fellow midfielder.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was never a debate between us three,\u201d he claimed. \u201cWe just discussed something on the pitch. After, you guys make it very big. But next time we will manage to do it in the changing room. Nobody was angry. It\u2019s all cleared. We are cool, everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dominik Szoboszlai believes last season\u2019s frustration can push Liverpool to challenge for the title again but admits the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":727320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-727319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/727320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}