Andoni Iraola has confirmed the return dates of Victor Munoz, Alisson Becker and Alexis Mac Allister ahead of the new season.
Victor Munoz will join his Liverpool teammates at the AXA Training Centre next week after helping Spain win the World Cup earlier this summer.
Alisson, who represented Brazil at the tournament, will also return to Kirkby after the club’s pre-season tour of the USA.
Mac Allister, however, will return slightly later following Argentina’s run to the World Cup final.
Speaking to Liverpoolfc.com in Chicago, Iraola outlined the trio’s return plans as Liverpool continue their preparations for the 2026-27 campaign.
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.
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