What It’s REALLY Like To Play For Andoni Iraola
The Redmen TV - Liverpool FC Podcast
The Redmen TV - Liverpool FC Podcast
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🗓️ 4 June 2026
⏱️ 8 minutes
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In this clip from Expert Insight, Dan spoke to Mario Suarez for this latest episode of Expert Insight, who played for incoming Liverpool head coach Andoni Iraola during his spell as Rayo Vallecano manager.
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| 0:00.0 | I wanted to ask you just quickly before we start to wrap up because Anton Semenio was the player for him at Bournemouth, |
| 0:05.0 | and he's spoken since about the training that we touched on the intensity of it and how physical it was and how demanding both him and Pablo were. |
| 0:13.0 | Was it a regular thing where you were working day in, day out at the same intensity? |
| 0:20.0 | Because the reason I'm asking is, |
| 0:21.3 | when we had Yergen Klopp, he used to get the players to train at matching sensitivity all the time |
| 0:26.0 | so they were ready for matches and it was twice a day sometimes, certainly every single day. |
| 0:31.1 | Was that similar in terms of the routine in the schedule? Because Liverpool last season, |
| 0:36.2 | there's a lot of talk about having a lot of days off. |
| 0:38.3 | Which way was Andoni and what was his preference in terms of training? |
| 0:42.3 | He's very demanding. He's going to demand. Look, for example, just to understand, when someone, you know, some coach, well, here is the difference that he's going to be, has to handle with three competitions or four. |
| 0:55.0 | If I have, the other cup you have, you have a lot of competitions there and the Champions |
| 1:01.0 | League. |
| 1:02.0 | No, Champions League? |
| 1:03.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:04.0 | Champions League, yeah. |
| 1:05.0 | And he's not, he's not going to be able to train as the way he was training in the other teams because |
| 1:13.6 | of in the other teams he has a lot of full weeks to train. |
| 1:16.6 | Here he's not going to have. |
| 1:18.6 | But one example to you to understand when he has a player injured and you know sometimes with some coach, |
| 1:24.6 | you can go out and start training maybe playing as a joker sometimes no no |
| 1:31.5 | you don't come back to train if you are not able to train with the team okay so if you are not |
| 1:38.6 | ready to give the hundred percent that you have in that moment of course if you came from an injury |
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