Miron Muslic has acknowledged Plymouth Argyle are in 'a tough situation' at the bottom of the Championship but he is not afraid of the challenge either and believes they can turn it around.

After becoming a refugee from Bosnia as a nine-year-old, Muslic had to deal with adversity early on in his life but that has shaped the person he has become, and his love for football has taken him on a journey which has now brought him to England.

Argyle are three points from a position of safety (effectively four, given their much worse goal difference compared to the teams above them) after not winning any of their last 12 league games since they beat Portsmouth 1-0 at Home Park on November 5. They host 13th-placed Queens Park Rangers in a 12.30pm kick-off tomorrow.

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Muslic said: "I'm completely aware of the situation. When I did my analysing, there have been a lot of things that was very, very negative towards Argyle in terms of defensive structure, offensive line, offensive threat.

"There is a reason why we are there where we are, but there is also possibilities how you can turn this, and I'm not afraid of this. It is a challenge, and it will remain a challenge, but it's a beautiful challenge.

"It's the game we love so we are doing actually something we really love, and we are doing this in front of 20,000, 30,000, 40,000 people. We are all well paid also. It's a privilege to be a football player, it's nothing we should be afraid.

"The situation is tough no doubt, I am completely aware of this, but I was also very keen and very confident when I took this decision (to become Argyle head coach). It's a challenging one but it's not impossible.

"If we can maximise over the next weeks and months everything in the squad, and I'm normally good at maximising and getting everything out, we can do this, and that's the message."

As a player, Muslic was a striker mainly in lower level Austrian football. Asked whether he had the same hunger and drive then, as he does now as a manager, he replied: "Hunger and drive, yes, not the quality.

"I think I had around 50 games in the second division of Austria so it will not blow you up my career but I truly believe that regardless of your quality as a football player, or the division you play, it's still the same love of football.

"If I have 50 games in the second division, or 150 caps for England, it's still the same love. I don't have a problem with that. I was always very competitive, always very challenging.

"It maybe has something to do with how I grew up. We became refugees 1992, when I was nine years old, so my whole life was some way struggling but finding a way out, that's also why I'm sitting here. The future, I'm not afraid looking forward."

Muslic, who has signed a contract with Argyle until the summer of 2028, indicated he was likely to add to his backroom staff in the near future. In his first week with the Pilgrims he has worked with Kevin Nancekivell and goalkeeping coach Daryl Flahavan.

"We have to keep our eyes open to reinforce the staff because if we can reinforce the staff then we can go fully towards the players to actually make them better, and this is what we want," said Muslic.

"It's not about just getting someone in, it's getting the best possible coaches for Argyle, the best possible coaches for our locker room. I'm very confident over the next couple of days we will have progress over that."

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