Andoni Iraola's Liverpool in-tray: Get Alexander Isak firing, convince Alisson to stay and figure out what to do with Florian Wirtz

Key points

• Usually, the last thing a manager wants is to see an important player heading off to a major international tournament.
• However, Slot argued shortly before he was sacked that Alexander Isak's participation in the World Cup might actually be a good thing for Liverpool.
• After all, it's not as if the Sweden international was at the risk of burnout.
• He only started 13 times during his first, injury-plagued campaign on Merseyside.
• So, one could easily understand why Slot thought it would be "very helpful" for Isak to play "a lot of games" at the World Cup.