Following his deadline day arrival at Anfield on loan from Bundesliga outfit Schalke, Kabak has started three Premier League games for Liverpool, registering his first top flight clean sheet and win as the Reds beat Sheffield United 2-0 on Sunday.

 

Kabak lost his first two games in Liverpool colours, having come into a Reds squad struggling with a poor run of results and with key players out injured.

 

 

The 20-year-old is tasting English football for the first time in his career and Liverpool legend Aldridge is of the view that it is hard to assess his start based on three league outings.

 

Aldridge explained that Kabak has been thrown into the deep end without really having time to settle in as Jurgen Klopp had to play him due to his team’s injury woes.

 

 

“It’s hard to assess Ozan Kabak”, Aldridge wrote in his Liverpool Echo column.

 

“He made some mistakes against an old-fashioned Sheffield United team that likes to play long ball and have their strikers in your face.

 

 

“He did some really good things too but he made mistakes and got away with them.

 

“He’s been thrown in at the deep end and it’s sink or swim.

 

“The manager is assessing him between now and the end of the season and he has to learn quickly.

 

“It’s hard in a different country at a young age but watch this space with him.”

 

Kabak will have to learn quickly and step up his game soon should he seek to convince his boss Klopp that he deserves to move to Merseyside on a permanent basis in the summer.