Gary McAllister says Jurgen Klopp will turn things around at Liverpool

Posted Wednesday, February 08, 2017 by Skysports.com

Liverpool ambassador Gary McAllister says there is no doubt Jurgen Klopp has what is needed to get the club out of their current slump.

But McAllister says the Liverpool players will need to work hard to halt a poor run which has seen them slip outside the top four, having been seen as title contenders earlier in the season.

Klopp's men have not won a Premier League game since new year's eve but former Reds midfielder McAllister does not think it is time to question the manager.

"He is proven," McAllister told Sky Sports News HQ. "A lot of managers come on and say they are winners. He is a winner, he is a proven winner

"He has worked at a big club, he has taken the title away from Bayern Munich when he was at Dortmund, so he knows his way around.

"I can't tell Jurgen Klopp what to do.

"Chelsea at the start of the season, Man City - they have had their problems. We are in that little problematic period and we have got to get out the other end.

"It will be hard work and it will be loads of running and loads of biting and scratching to get points."

As for any extra scrutiny the players may feel they are under, McAllister says that is part and parcel of being at such a big club.

"It was something that was apparent when I came here and it was similar at Leeds United," he said.

"You are under the microscope more at the big clubs and none more so than here. It is all part of being a Liverpool player and being able to deal with criticism when it comes your way.

"Not only are people looking at game by game, they are looking at minute by minute here, it is brought into on that sort of scale.

"The two years I had here, there were not many losses but, whenever there was a home draw, it felt like a crisis, and that is just the nature of the beast here at Liverpool."

McAllister spoke to Sky Sports News HQ at an educational event hosted at Anfield as part of Safer Internet Day.

The day is designed to promote the positive use of digital technology and teaches children and young people how to use the internet safely and responsibly. McAllister gave a talk to over 300 school children and helped them with some of the tasks they were set.