fJurgen Klopp has revealed that he held a ‘long talk’ with Darwin Nunez.
Nunez’s start to life at Liverpool was disrupted by early suspension and has found himself deployed from the substitutes’ bench in the last three games.
The Uruguayan’s struggles are currently magnified by the exploits of Erling Haaland, who has scored 17 goals in his first 11 games for Manchester City.
But Klopp insists that the Reds are relaxed about Nunez’s adaptation to the Premier League and detailed a pep talk with his summer recruit on Monday.
He said: “Of course he’s still adapting, how players always adapt.
“Players, new players, come in, everybody talks about them and wants them to shine immediately. That happens from time to time and sometimes not.
“Only yesterday we had a long talk – with Pep Lijnders, because my Spanish or Portuguese is still not better – and we just told him ‘we are completely calm’.
“So it’s really important in our situation now [that he is] not starting to worry – and he’s not looking like he’s worrying or whatever.
“Why he didn’t start this game [against Brighton], he came from international [duty] and he had a [problem] in the hamstring.
“When you get this information from the medical department it gives you some kind of minutes, how long he is allowed to play.
“You don’t start anybody who is allowed to play 20 minutes, or 15, so that’s the reason.
“But I know it’s again this kind of discussion, which we open up a little bit for the outside world.
“Of course, the three-game suspension didn’t help him settle, that’s clear. But that’s pretty much all.
“The team is not flying, that makes it not easier for a striker, especially not for a finisher.
“We create chances, but it’s not that everything is clicking and we just put one player in and he finishes our situations off.
“That’s not our situation in the moment, as much as I wish it would be, that’s all.”