Liverpool legend Alan Hansen has insisted football's biggest names still want to play for the club despite last season's disappointing campaign.
Hansen, 54, enjoyed a trophy-laden 14-year spell on Merseyside before retiring in 1991. He believes current manager Rafael Benitez still has the core of a title-winning side in place, even though the Reds could only stumble towards a seventh placed finish in the Premier League last season.
Speaking to Radio City, Hansen believed Liverpool can challenge for silverware again if "two or three men" are added to the squad.
"Liverpool are still Liverpool - they're still massive and they still have the greatest support in the world," Hansen said.
"Liverpool has got to forget what's gone before and concentrate on what's ahead of them.
"It's going to be difficult but I'd look at 1986-87 when Everton won the league and we came second. I knew we were a long way short. Kenny Dalglish knew that too and he brought in Barnes, Beardsley, Aldridge, Spackman and Houghton.
"That turned it around like you'd never believe. We went from not being nearly good enough to being a great side.
"Hopefully that can happen to this Liverpool side because they've got some great players. If they can just get two or three more in who can do a job."
Hansen, 54, enjoyed a trophy-laden 14-year spell on Merseyside before retiring in 1991. He believes current manager Rafael Benitez still has the core of a title-winning side in place, even though the Reds could only stumble towards a seventh placed finish in the Premier League last season.
Speaking to Radio City, Hansen believed Liverpool can challenge for silverware again if "two or three men" are added to the squad.
"Liverpool are still Liverpool - they're still massive and they still have the greatest support in the world," Hansen said.
"Liverpool has got to forget what's gone before and concentrate on what's ahead of them.
"It's going to be difficult but I'd look at 1986-87 when Everton won the league and we came second. I knew we were a long way short. Kenny Dalglish knew that too and he brought in Barnes, Beardsley, Aldridge, Spackman and Houghton.
"That turned it around like you'd never believe. We went from not being nearly good enough to being a great side.
"Hopefully that can happen to this Liverpool side because they've got some great players. If they can just get two or three more in who can do a job."
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