Liverpool is confident in Brendan Rodgers to lead the direction of the club.

“I think the big lure will be Champions League, that’s what I’ve found in my conversations with agents and people," said Rodgers. “The best players want to play in the big competition. There was one player who we offered more money to than he took from the club that he went to just to play Champions League football [last summer]. That’s the fight and I certainly found that last summer but we’ve put Liverpool back on the map now.

“Everyone sees that we’re going to be a threat; that we’re going to go into Europe next year and we’ll have no fear. We need to pay attention in terms of the teams we’ll be playing against but we’ll have no fear.”