Hello everyone and welcome to Red Men TV. This is the Red Men Byter's podcast. My name's

Steve Hawth. Today is Wednesday the 3rd of June. Hope you're doing well. I'm here to bring you

all the latest Liverpool news and granted these shows can age a little bit quickly in the

current climate given the fact that Liverpool are clearly interested in hiring and new

manager. There's transfer stuff so it is 9.30am UK time. We're going to make that specific right now. So if anything changes and you're wondering why I haven't spoken about it, there you go. You know the reason why. Let's get state into it. Manager talk, head coach talk, whatever you want to call it. Andoni I Iriola, has agreed a two-year contract at Liverpool,

according to David Ornstein of the Athletic and then various others as well.

He says there's a verbal agreement between Iriola and the Reds.

The two-year deal, his report, according to Ben Jacobs,

Eriola's insistence, It's how he likes to work.

It's how he likes to operate. And I've agreed to do that one. So, yeah, it looks like we are now just awaiting official announcements, confirmations that Andoni Eriola is going to be the next head coach of Liverpool, all very agreed, just the formalities to go through. of those formalities then one one of them, of course, is who he is going to bring in in his

backroom staff.

There had been some speculation, some rumours, some talk that maybe Iriola would have

maybe an ex-Liverpool player in the mix.

Well, according to a report again, David Ornstein and others,

Iriola's already got his backroom staff lined up.

There's work to be done with Bournemouth in terms of getting those guys involved,

which again is maybe part of the reasons.

Things are just not absolutely confirmed, nailed on just yet.

But those men are Pablo Delatore, who is the Bournemouth Fitness slash Conditioning Coach,

his assistant manager, Tommy Elfich, the set piece coach Sean Cooper,

and head analyst Tom Weber. Delatore, by the way, was already out of contract,

so that's not a problem. He was already tied him with Andoanayiraola,

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