He believes recent results prove his old club need to bring in several new faces during the summer, especially if they qualify for Europe.

And that will mean Jurgen Klopp loosening his purse strings, just like Antonio Conte and Jose Mourinho did ahead of the current campaign.

“There was a piece in the ECHO over the weekend about Liverpool not spending the kind of money that our rivals like Manchester United and Chelsea do but we’re going to have to,” said the former striker, speaking to the Liverpool ECHO.

“Come the summer we’ve got to splash the cash.

“If you look at the figures last summer, the outlay just more or less covered the funds raised from the players we sold which is ridiculously fantastic.

“We’ve got a better squad with what Jurgen has brought in but next year if we’re in Europe we’re going to need a fair number of players.

“It’s not going to be tinkering with one or two, there’s going to have to be a few so the money has got to be made available absolutely.”