"It would be a shame for Liverpool, if and when they do win the league, to go on and have a rebuild because it shouldn't be that way. It should be building and fine-tweaking. You shouldn't be doing open heart surgery on the team."

Liverpool will be forced to let Virgil van Dijk leave with Trent Alexander-Arnold in the summer in order to retain superstar Mohamed Salah.

The contracts of three of Liverpool's best players are up at the end of the season. The club risks losing all three, leaving plenty of work to do in the summer.