Asked what supporters could expect from his Liverpool, Iraola put connection with the crowd at the heart of his answer.
"I would like to give them a team that they can feel proud of," he said. "Football, and especially Liverpool, for me is about connecting with the people, connecting with our supporters."
He recalled his own experience as a visitor at Anfield, pointing to the noise generated by Federico Chiesa's goal on the opening day of last season.
"You can feel this stadium — and I would love to have this every game we play.
"It has to come from us from inside the pitch and we have to be a team that works hard, is intense, aggressive, vertical, so everyone can be identified, everyone can feel comfortable supporting this team."
That attacking identity, he confirmed, will remain non-negotiable regardless of the opposition.
"I prefer to face low blocks," he said. "We will be in control of the game, we will spend a lot of time in the opposition half, and those are the scenarios we have to find."
He wants his side to dominate territory "with the ball, without the ball," reasoning that his team are "closer to scoring than the opposition" in those moments.
On squad business, Iraola was direct about the scale of the rebuilding task still facing the club.
"Obviously we've signed two players already, but we need more players — we know this," he said, referencing summer arrivals Jeremy Jacquet and Victor Munoz. "The club is working on this. Me as a coach, selfishly, you want the players here on day one, ready to train from pre-season, but we understand that football doesn't work like this."
He addressed the departures of senior figures including Mohamed Salah, Andy Robertson and Ibrahima Konate candidly, framing the summer as a genuine rebuild rather than a tweak.
"We have to accept there are difficult situations right now," he said. "A lot of senior players leaving, very important players that have achieved almost everything here, and also some very important players injured."
He named Hugo Ekitike, Conor Bradley and Giovanni Leoni as long-term absentees Liverpool will have to find solutions around, adding: "I love them, they are the long-term solutions, I'm sure... but there is going to be a period where we will be without them."
There was warmer news for Harvey Elliott, back a week early and training with the under-21s.
"Harvey is here with us, I have seen him with this eagerness of getting himself ready again," Iraola said. "I think the bad situation he has experienced can make him even more eager to be a Liverpool player."
He also acknowledged the intensity of the job itself, promising not to retreat into a bubble despite the scrutiny that comes with it.
"I'm not going to live in my bubble — just training ground, home," he said. "I would also like to go to the city, experience the city... it's part of the magic of being the Liverpool manager and I would not like to change too much."
On the physical demands of a full Liverpool campaign after a Bournemouth season that ran to only 40 fixtures, Iraola welcomed rather than feared the challenge.
"It's impossible to deal with this kind of season with 13, 14, 15 players, you need all the squad," he said. "We have to get ready because in this kind of hard season, injuries will happen... December, January, February, those months are really hard, and we have to arrive in a situation where we can deal with them."