Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has asked fans to be patient with new summer signing Alexis Mac Allister while he settles into life at the club.
Mac Allister moved to Anfield from Brighton in a deal worth £35m on a five-year contract. The 24-year-old has been finding his feet at his new club and has impressed so far.
He has featured in all three of the Reds’ pre-season games, recording one assist but Klopp has pleaded for patience for the World Cup winner.
“Good player. These things, it needs time. Even in the season it’s not that you have the first game and then it’s the best game of the season – that would be really horrible if that would be the case. So, we have to work on it and we work on that,” the German said.
“We have a lot of options in the areas and the boys need to show up. It’s not pressure, it’s just the situation because I think it was clear when we scored in the first half three goals but second half Cody and Dom and Luis and Ben [Doak], to be honest, that was pretty special.
“And Harvey as well really showed up. James [McConnell] on the six is just a joy to watch – the boy never played the position before we put him there and he throws his heart on the pitch to fill the role. These things are really good. Joey looked good today in the position. Joel is just calm on the ball – you can see that [with] the stepping in and that all helps.
Klopp added: “Everybody has still a bit of work to do, that’s absolutely fine. Tomorrow in the morning we have recovery and after that we will have a proper, proper video meeting where we go through all the things so far and we show the boys good and bad. In the afternoon [we have] a proper physical session and then we prepare the Bayern game with two sessions.”
“That’s it. It’s a pre-season game, so not the most important thing, and, yes, we needed a few goalkeeper saves – that’s fine.
“We know why we needed them and that’s what we have to work on. I’m really happy then in the second half the high press looked a lot better because otherwise I would [go], ‘OK, we spoke so much about it and it doesn’t work anyway, so that makes no sense.’ But second half showed we really worked on it and that’s why I liked that.
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