Liverpool manager, Jurgen Klopp, has said Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain needs time to get familiar with their style of play, before he can play a lot.
The £40m deadline-day signing is in line for a first Reds start at Leicester in Tuesday’s Carabao up tie.
So far, Oxlade-Chamberlain has only played 57 minutes across three substitute appearances.
And ahead of the Leicester game, Klopp said: “We are working on it. We are obviously together with him and the analysts to show him how we want to play him in this position and in that position.
“So there is work to do but there is no rush. That is how it is but it is really good that he is here.
“Of course it is always better – and next year it will be like this – if a new player comes in for the [start of] the season at least, if not for the pre-season. That would be even better.
“When the season starts, now we are really in this three-games-per-week rhythm and during the international break he was with the national team. So it is not easy and it takes time.
“But already at the weekend [against Burnley], he came on in a difficult situation and he did really well.”
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