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I'm worried that Liverpool’s lack of transfer activity will return to haunt us come May. We had a great opportunity to strengthen the squad during the January window but we failed to take it and I find that crazy.

The Liverpool fans I’ve spoken to are concerned about the club’s transfer policy and I have to agree with a lot of the things I’ve heard.

There seem to be conflicting stories about what happened with Yehven Konoplyanka. Dnipro say we didn’t come up with the cash in time on deadline day, while Liverpool insist it simply came down to the Ukraine club’s owner refusing to sign the paperwork.

What we do know is that Liverpool missed out on a very good player. And that’s not the first time that’s happened over the past couple of years and it’s very frustrating.

If Dnipro were playing silly buggers then I’d like to hear Ian Ayre or the owners come out and explain what’s gone on.

As supporters we want to know why deals always seem to break down. We seem to either lose out to a rival club or the player ends up staying put.

I know you want to keep your business private but the fans need enlightening. Why did we leave it so late to get our business done? Why did we spend so long trying to sign Mohamed Salah who ended up going to Chelsea?

Why is a club the size of Liverpool relying on loan players like Aly Cissokho and Victor Moses?

The fact is we should be competing with the best and we should be able to afford the best.

We are a massive club and we should be going out and signing £20million players, not taking gambles on £6/£7million players.

Maybe the owners were worried about committing more funds when four players we signed last summer – Cissokho, Luis Alberto, Iago Aspas and Moses – have done so little.

It’s a shame because Brendan Rodgers is doing a great job. He has taken us to a position where we didn’t expect to be.

We all know how important fourth place is. If we get in the Champions League, Luis Suarez stays and we get a big injection of cash.

If we end up fifth or sixth we could lose Suarez and then we’ll be starting all over again.

That one extra player in January could have helped us pick up that extra three or four points which might make all the difference.

What’s clear is that if we do get into the Champions League we’re going to need to throw a lot of money at our squad because it’s simply not good enough to be able to compete both in Europe and domestically.

Look at Man City and Chelsea, they can pretty much field two teams of similar quality – that’s how far away we are. Signing either Salah or Konoplyanka in January would have been one less player we needed this summer.

Hopefully we can get away with it and the current crop can keep us inside the top four. But if we do fall away fans will point to the January window as a missed opportunity to ensure really push on.

Moment of madness so costly

A moment of madness cost us victory at West Brom. It was a ridiculous way to drop two points and in the end it felt like a defeat.

It was a total lapse in concentration by Kolo Toure. What you don’t do in that position is take risks and you certainly don’t play the ball across the face of your own box.

He was asking for trouble and Victor Anichebe made him pay for it.

Toure came to the club as a squad player and injuries to Daniel Agger and Mamadou Sakho have meant he’s played more games than he expected.

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That was his third game in a week so maybe tiredness played a part.

It wasn’t just that error, he looked out of sorts all afternoon and after that mistake he went to pieces.

Toure is a good pro and you can’t doubt his commitment. He needs to put that behind him.

Sunday was a very ordinary performance from Liverpool. Our passing wasn’t good enough and our final ball kept letting us down.

When you’re not at our best you need to grind out a win but one big mistake meant we weren’t able to do that.

Reds need to raise it for Gunners

If we had beaten West Brom we would have gone into the Arsenal game this Saturday buoyant. A draw against the Gunners wouldn’t have been the end of the world but now it’s a game we really need to win.

Anfield has been a fortress for us this season and we really need that to continue.

We need to win at least five of the seven home games we’ve got left to give ourselves a chance of getting up to that 70/71 points mark.

That won’t be easy with Arsenal, Spurs, Man City and Chelsea to come but we’ve already beaten United and Everton at Anfield.

Arsenal have been grinding out results. But they’re not the team people think they are. They aren’t in the same class as City.

I think we’re playing them at a decent time.

They have got a massive month with Bayern Munich and United to play as well as us at least twice. If we keep Ozil and Cazorla quiet we will keep Arsenal quiet.

The lads showed they can deal with pressure with the way they performed against Everton. We need to play at that level again.

Derby was so sweet

The Merseyside derby was a crazy game and you have to say Everton got off lightly. If the penalty had gone in it would have been 5-0 with more than half an hour still to play.

It was an excellent performance and we just blew Everton away in that first half.

They were missing some of their big players at the back and we took full advantage.

The attacking quartet of Suarez, Sturridge, Coutinho and Sterling were so dangerous, while Steven Gerrard was our best player. He rolled back the years with that tremendous display.

Sterling in great form

Raheem Sterling was superb against West Brom. They simply couldn't handle him and he caused them so many problems down the right.

I was disappointed we didn't get the ball out to him more in the second half, especially after Liam Ridgewell was booked.

Sterling has come on so much in recent months. Credit to Brendan Rodgers because he stuck with him and that faith has been rewarded.

Sterling has got his confidence back and I think a lot of that is down to great man management.