Jurgen Klopp claims Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain lacks self-belief after stuttering spell under Arsene Wenger
September 19, 2017
Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp believes Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain badly lacks self-belief after struggling to live up to early expectations at Arsenal.
Oxlade-Chamberlain completed a £35million move to Anfield this summer, following an underwhelming six-year spell in north London, and Klopp is confident he can get the best out of the 24-year-old England star.
Klopp suggests Oxlade-Chamberlain was ‘relieved’ to join Liverpool and the German is ready to hand his new signing a start against Leicester City in the EFL Cup on Tuesday evening.
Ahead of the clash, Klopp said: ‘It would be strange for me to say it after two and half weeks when Arsene Wenger said this after working with him for six years.
‘But a new start is very often a kind of relief, that’s how it is. You are in a situation with your old club – and I don’t say this about Alex specifically – and you accept it and it is difficult to make the next step.’
Oxlade-Chamberlain completed a £35million move to Anfield this summer, following an underwhelming six-year spell in north London, and Klopp is confident he can get the best out of the 24-year-old England star.
Klopp suggests Oxlade-Chamberlain was ‘relieved’ to join Liverpool and the German is ready to hand his new signing a start against Leicester City in the EFL Cup on Tuesday evening.
Ahead of the clash, Klopp said: ‘It would be strange for me to say it after two and half weeks when Arsene Wenger said this after working with him for six years.
‘But a new start is very often a kind of relief, that’s how it is. You are in a situation with your old club – and I don’t say this about Alex specifically – and you accept it and it is difficult to make the next step.’
Liverpool’s manager believes Oxlade-Chamberlain has confidence issues but stresses that the Englishman has settled in well on Merseyside.
‘I thought it made complete sense for Alex to change club and to come here. So far I can’t see that [he lacks self-belief].
‘He has settled in perfectly. He knows the situation.
‘He played all the games for Arsenal from the beginning and now he comes here and is on the bench so it looks “Oh, not the best decision” but it is long-term thing.
‘We want to use him and to prepare him also. It is all good from this side at the moment.’
‘I thought it made complete sense for Alex to change club and to come here. So far I can’t see that [he lacks self-belief].
‘He has settled in perfectly. He knows the situation.
‘He played all the games for Arsenal from the beginning and now he comes here and is on the bench so it looks “Oh, not the best decision” but it is long-term thing.
‘We want to use him and to prepare him also. It is all good from this side at the moment.’
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