Brendan Rodgers is convinced Rickie Lambert will shine for Liverpool next season although he has conceded the former Southampton striker is not 100 per cent match fit.
Lambert joined his boyhood club for £4million earlier this summer and featured during the club's pre-season tour of the USA.
Lambert is likely to get more of a run in the first team especially following the departure of Luis Suarez.
And Rodgers believes Lambert will play a big part.
"I think with Rickie it’s just the adaptation period of coming into a new club,” said Rodgers.
“There are new pressures and he’s still getting his fitness. A lot has happened to Rickie in a short period of time – moving his family up, travelling away, getting used to the players and how we work.
He knows he’s not going to play every week but he will play a specific role for us in certain games
“I have no doubts about Rickie. He knows he’s not going to play every week but he will play a specific role for us in certain games.
"I’m sure he will do that really well.”
This is despite ex-Manchester City goalkeeper Rodney Marsh claiming Lambert's first team opportunities will be limited next term.
"Rickie Lambert is going to spend the majority of the season on the bench,” Marsh told talkSPORT.
“For me, he is not a Liverpool player, in the way that Brendan Rodgers wants to play."
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