Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has urged fans to reduce their expectations from the club’s summer signing Alexis Mac Allister.
The Reds boss, who watched as his side put in a perfect show on Sunday when they beat Leicester City 4-0, admitted he was impressed with new signing Mac Allister in the game.
However, he also urged fans to remain patient with the Argentine as he gets used to life at Anfield.
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Mac Allister joined the Reds earlier this summer in a £35m deal from Brighton. The Argentina international has seen plenty of minutes during pre-season and really made an impact during the recent 4-0 victory over Leicester, being singled out by Klopp after the game.
“When we found Macca between the lines, he was really good,” Klopp told The Athletic. “That helped us speed the game up.”
But even though he has already been impressed by Mac Allister, Klopp insisted the 24-year-old is not yet at his best and warned fans he will need time to fully learn his place in Liverpool’s system.
“So, we have to work on it, and we work on that. We have a lot of options in the areas, and the boys need to show up.
“Good player. These things, it needs time,” Klopp said of Mac Allister. “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.
“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 in the second half, Cody [Gakpo] and Dom [Szoboszlai] and Luis [Diaz] and Ben [Doak], to be honest, that was pretty special. And Harvey [Elliott] as well really showed up.”
