Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has told the club’s official website that Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain is training really well, and has admitted that it is not easy for him, Naby Keita and Xherdan Shaqiri.
The Liverpool boss has also suggested that former Arsenal midfielder Oxlade-Chamberlain will not leave Anfield in the summer transfer window.
A report in The Sunday World in March claimed that the Premier League giants could sell the 27-year-old.
Winger Shaqiri was also named in the report as a player that Liverpool could sell, and the same publication last month named midfielder Keita as a player who could be sold as well.
Klopp told Liverpool’s official website: “The summer is important for all of us – and for Ox is it exactly the same as you can say about each player. When you don’t start games, then you have to use each training session and each minute on the pitch in a game to convince.
“I don’t have to be convinced, to be honest, but it is about showing up in these situations. Ox had really good moments, he trains good in the moment, I have to say, really well and that’s really good.
“These situations are not easy for the boys, not only him but for Naby it is not easy, for Shaq not easy and for some other players not easy.”
Oxlade-Chamberlain has not had the best of times at Liverpool since joining from Premier League rivals Arsenal in 2017.
The England international midfielder has had injury problems, and when fit and available, he has struggled to play regularly.
When fit and available, Jordan Henderson, Fabinho, Thiago and Georginio Wijnaldum are the four main midfielders that manager Klopp tends to rotate in the starting lineup.
Keita has also failed to play regularly for the Reds, while Shaqiri has always been a squad player.
It is unlikely that all three of Oxlade-Chamberlain, Keita and Shaqiri will be at Liverpool next season, as they will have ambitions to play regularly for a top team instead of warming the substitutes’ bench.
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