**Milos Kerkez believes Andoni Iraola is ‘the perfect fit’ for Liverpool.**
The Hungary international was reunited with his former Bournemouth head coach after he was installed as Arne Slot’s successor at Anfield earlier this summer.
Kerkez’s original £40 million move to the Reds last year came off the back of a two-season spell working under the Basque on the South Coast to great effect.
And the 22-year-old believes that Iraola will bring the best out of his new charges ahead of Wednesday’s latest pre-season friendly with Wrexham in New York.
“I was delighted, honestly,” said Kerkez.
“He helped me and improved me a lot in the two years I spent with him. I was really happy, obviously for myself but also for the team.
“Everyone knows what type of football he plays so I think he is the perfect fit for us.
“It’s the intensity. He’s not scared to play one-on-one all over the pitch, to press high and to be on the front foot always.
“If you see footage of how we all are after training, all lying down, then you can see what he is preparing us for.
“You definitely need legs and good condition for what he wants us to do, but we will be all right.
“When we play games with three or four teams he calls it ‘consequences’ and the losing team and the team that finishes second has to run.
“How much you have to run depends on what he decides in that moment, but there is always running for the team that loses.
“He’s intense and he likes details. He’s very professional. He likes to talk sometimes but not a lot.
“I think maybe he doesn’t want to get too close to some players and wants to show that everyone is the same in the team, so he doesn’t want to get too close to anyone in particular.
“He keeps it professional, with a lot of hard work.”
Kerkez endured a difficult debut campaign on Merseyside as the reigning Premier League champions stumbled to a fifth-place finish in Slot’s final year at the helm.
But the left-back, who was brought into as former vice-captain Andy Robertson’s long-term successor, insists he is not fazed by the lofty expectations he faces.
He added: “Honestly, I don’t care about pressure.
“I don’t like ‘pressure’ and that stuff. I grew up a bit different in Serbia. We grew up different. You could say maybe we are built a bit different.
“For example, I started to drive a truck when I was 10 years old It was with my dad.
“I climbed in and then I took the wheel. He was doing the pedals, I was only quite small so I couldn’t reach them.”