Former Liverpool fullback Glen Johnson says Roy Hodgson wasn't ready to manage the club.

Hodgson claimed just 13 wins in a 31-match tenure at Anfield between July 2010 and January 2011.

"Well Roy, no disrespect, had come from smaller clubs and I don't think he was ready to manage Liverpool," the former England defender told The Anfield Wrap.

"We had players like Xabi Alonso, Fernando Torres and Javier Mascherano, players like that and we'd be worried about playing a smaller team at Anfield.

"No disrespect to the smaller teams but you have to grab the bull by the horns and just go and put them to bed, and he just didn't have that sort of mentality, it was all a bit straight line and defensive."