Manager Harry Redknapp insists his position at QPR is under no threat – despite reports he could be replaced following a poor start to the season.

The 67-year-old ex-Saints boss guided the Hoops back into the Barclays Premier League through the play-offs last year, but the side have struggled on their return to the top flight.

Following their opening seven games - which include a 2-1 defeat at Saints last month – QPR sit bottom of the table with just four points and face Liverpool at Loftus Road on Sunday.

That slow start has seen Redknapp's job questioned, with Tony Pulis and Tim Sherwood both linked with the role, but he does not believe he has an added burden to deliver results in order to stay in charge.

When asked if he was feeling any pressure, Redknapp said: "None whatsoever.

“Until you've been under pressure you don't know what pressure is and I'm not under pressure, none whatsoever. I'm looking forward to the game on Sunday.

“We have played seven games, we are seven games into a Premier League season.

“We have played three home games, we got beaten by Hull 1-0 and missed a penalty, we beat Sunderland and drew with Stoke in a tough game - it is not easy.

“I still have every confidence in the players here that we will start getting the results and hopefully that will start on Sunday."

Redknapp's current deal expires at the end of the season and for weeks he had been expected to sign an extension.

But the former Portsmouth boss is not concerned about negotiating a new contract and is still enjoying a close working relationship with owner Tony Fernandes.

"I don't need assurances from anybody," he said.

"It is up to Tony what he does. If he is not happy come and talk to me - I'm a big boy.

“I'm going for dinner with him tonight. I'm not going to be there buying him dinner to keep my job - I will let him buy dinner.

"The impasse over my contract is that I wasn't bothered about signing a new contract, not in the slightest.

"What is a contract? A contract is you work for a club. If they don't want you, you talk to the chairman, sort out what you're doing and you move on.

"If we stay up and at the end of the year Tony wants to talk about another year with me I'd be delighted, that is what I want to do in my life."

Although Redknapp has previously said he would have very little desire to remain in place if QPR were to be relegated, he insists his passion for the game still keeps him putting in the effort to turn things around.

"I was up at four o'clock this morning," he said.

"I left my house at twenty-to-five, I must be doing it for some reason, not because I need to feed the dogs, it is because I love it.

"When I don't love doing it I won't get up in the morning, when the alarm goes off I will turn over and on the day I don't feel like coming in that will be it for me.

"It is not easy but I'm confident we will be okay. Certainly no one is walking around, moping around feeling sorry for themselves.

"If we had seven points we would be delighted. We are a couple of points short of what we should have had."