We cannot sustain the level we want - Iraola

Iraola has 2 pre-season games remaining - a double-header against Como connected 16 August - earlier their Premier League play gets nether way. In 2 weeks time, erstwhile they statesman their top-flight run astatine Newcastle, the question remains arsenic to who volition spouse Virgil van Dijk astatine centre-back. Alongside Alisson and Cody Gakpo, Van Dijk made his instrumentality against Monaco aft an extended post-World Cup break. Van Dijk started the crippled with 18-year-old Ifeanyi Ndukwe, who looks similar a terrific endowment but volition person to spell connected indebtedness this play owed to enactment licence issues. It spoke volumes that Liverpool finished the crippled with Luke Chambers and Wataru Endo astatine centre-back. Ronald Araujo, 27, completed his aesculapian connected Sunday arsenic his season-long indebtedness determination from Barcelona - with an enactment to bargain for astir £47.2m - nears completion, portion Jeremy Jacquet, 21, is yet to beryllium progressive successful afloat grooming since completing his determination from Rennes. Jacquet suffered a enarthrosis wounded successful February and has precocious struggled with a insignificant genu problem, but Liverpool are optimistic helium could play adjacent play against Como. "Jeremy Jacquet, we were successful uncertainty whether to enactment him in," said Iraola. "We decided not to, but helium should beryllium good for the adjacent one. It's taking a spot much clip than we were expecting."