Naby Keita has endured an inauspicious start to life at Liverpool.
Andy Robertson has admitted to The Echo that Liverpool team-mate Naby Keita is struggling ‘a wee bit’.
Much has been made over the £52 million midfielder’s form after Jurgen Klopp left him on the bench for three successive Premier League games recently.
Keita enjoyed an excellent first month at Liverpool but has steadily declined since.
His Reds team-mate Fabinho also endured an inauspicious start to life at Anfield but has since established himself as a key player for Klopp.
And Robertson says that Keita is merely suffering from an inevitable transitional period that he and other Liverpool stars have struggled with originally.
“I think all the lads that have come in have experienced very similar,” he told The Echo.
“Me and Chambo experienced it last season. Naby is experiencing it a wee bit now, Fabinho has experienced it, Shaq [Xherdan Shaqiri] has experienced it.
“It’s just learning and of course the massive expectations that come with playing for Liverpool sometimes takes a wee bit of getting used to. It did for me and once I got used to it I’ve not really looked back.”
Keita is certainly a brilliant midfielder and his early performances at Liverpool proved as much.
There is no denying that there’s been a downturn, but the former Leipzig man, who had a 90th-minute cameo in Saturday’s win at Brighton, has the class to turn his fortunes around.
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