NewsAndoni Iraola reveals return dates for Victor Munoz, Alisson Becker and Alexis Mac Allister

New signing Munoz will link up with his Liverpool teammates for the first time next week at the AXA Training Centre, after lifting the World Cup with Spain earlier this summer.

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Alisson – who was involved in the international competition with Brazil – will also be present in Kirkby when the Reds squad returns to Merseyside from their current tour of the USA.

Meanwhile, Mac Allister is set to be absent for slightly longer, following his participation in Argentina’s run to the World Cup final.

Speaking to Liverpoolfc.com in Chicago, Iraola discussed the return of the trio and the plans for his players in the coming weeks before 2026-27 starts.

Victor Munoz, a World Cup winner, will join the group soon. I’m sure he’s eager to end his holidays and be part of it. What is your plan for him?

Yes, he comes next week. We spoke to him and he wanted also to come a little bit earlier than the three weeks that they have the right to have, because obviously he is coming to a new club, he will need some time to adapt, to meet his teammates. We will have him next week as soon as we arrive there, basically. It’s good news.

And for Alexis Mac Allister and Alisson Becker, is that a similar situation?

Yes, Alisson will be there from the first day. He was arriving to AXA a little bit later than Cody [Gakpo] and Virgil [van Dijk]. But he will be [there] since the first day that we arrive and will start training there in Liverpool. And Alexis will have, I think, until the Monaco game. I think deserved holidays for him; long season, long World Cup, played until the final, has played a lot of minutes. I hope he comes fully recovered and he enjoys also the break that he definitely has earned.

You resume normal training next week, once you’ve battled a little bit of jet lag, they’re straight back into work again to utilise this period you have before the season starts…

Yes, now it’s not so far, it’s three weeks. We have two or three friendlies, three if we count the double against Como. And then it starts. There is a part where you want to start straight away and feel the pressure of the competition, but also you want to use every friendly as good as we can because every friendly gives us things to correct, things that we still don’t have, the timings to improve. The more information, the more things we can correct before we start, it’s going to be much better.