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LIVERPOOL’S owners have got to be bold and back Brendan Rodgers in the January transfer window because fourth place really is up for grabs this season.

We all know what we need and Sunday’s goalless draw at Swansea City only confirmed it.

Rodgers has to be given the cash to bring in at least two attacking players so we’ve got more firepower in the second half of the season.

I know January isn’t the greatest time to buy players but we have to find the right deals for the club. That’s why you have a scouting network.

I was a bit concerned listening to Rodgers’ comments after the game when he talked about not being able to spend big in the next window.

Hopefully that was just his way of making it clear we’re not going to go shopping with an open wallet. You don’t want other clubs knowing how much you’ve got in the kitty.

The owners have got to look at it and realise that a decent investment in January could yield the riches of Champions League qualification.

We haven’t had the best of starts but we’re only four points behind Tottenham and Arsenal and five behind Everton. If we can keep on their tails until the new year and then strengthen we’ll have a great chance of catching them.

We’ve got Fabio Borini to come back from injury but I don’t think we can rely on him for goals in the second half of the season. I hope Borini proves me wrong but it looks like he will need a year or two to settle in. We need at least two players who can come in and make an instant impact and January is absolutely crucial for us.

Sunday’s game showed that when Luis Suarez is starved of any real service that we struggle to score goals. Swansea did a good job of keeping Suarez quiet.

We were the better side and if anyone deserved to win then it was Liverpool but we didn’t get any luck.

On another day Raheem Sterling’s volley hits the bar and goes in, while Jose Enrique’s disallowed goal for offside was harsh.

It wasn’t on a par with the one Suarez had wrongly chalked off in the derby which was shockingly ridiculous but it still cost us another two points. Enrique was level and you are supposed to give the benefit of the doubt to the attacker.

I thought Enrique caused them a lot of problems as he came inside off the left. Considering it’s a new position for him, he’s doing really well. The opposition have got no chance of working out what he’s going to do with it because I don’t think Enrique even knows himself!

I like the way he gets himself into the box and once again he was one of our better players.

We had a really good spell before half-time when it looked inevitable that we would score but it didn’t happen and then in the second half we couldn’t keep it going.

It was frustrating but six months ago we went to Swansea and lost after a woeful performance. Sunday was so much better and we looked capable of winning the game.