Liverpool boss Roy Hodgson claims he is no magician who can wave a magic wand and cure the Reds problems instantly, and would like the Anfield faithful to be realistic over expectations in the short term. The club currently occupy mid-table having been used to battling it out in the top four reaches of the Premiership.
"Fans are waiting for a man with a magic wand that can turn all of the ills that everyone has seen into something different," Hodgson said in the Sunday Mirror.
"Those of us who work in the game and have been working in the game a long time know that magic wand doesn't exist.
"Two years ago people were suggesting Arsene Wenger had had a good run at Arsenal and it was time to bring in the man with the magic wand. That's what we have to live with."
Hodgson feels his success at previous club Fulham has built up a level of expectation.
He said: "I know that I am capable of doing this job, but maybe the expectations and ambitions of the club were too high and weren't lessened by the fact that I came off the back of such a good season.
"People may have thought I would turn it around and unfortunately that's not been the case and we have to battle in the same way that Rafael Benitez had to in the latter part of his time at the club.
"Maybe what we have realised is that there is plenty of work to do here, but I am certainly very satisfied with the job I have done here.
"The fact that it hasn't gone as well as I'd have hoped results-wise is just the nature of football. I haven't worked any differently here than I did in the last six months at Fulham.
"Yes, it's been topsy-turvy in the sense that having defied people they have started to crucify me, but that's part of the business and the way things are.
"Pedestals are built to put people on then knock them off and I have a fairly mature attitude to that. I can't do more and the players can't do more so we hope that work will turn our fortunes around and we get some batter results."
