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What Liverpool needs this summer is a little bit of transparency with the transfer committee and then to go and get the players that are required.

Fans are always coming up to me asking about it and I’m sick of it now.

You try and stick up for the club and those within in it but I think they owe it to the fans to tell us exactly how it works.

Years ago we knew there was the manager, the chairman, the secretary and the chief scout.

Back in the day the manager and chief scout would physically go out and watch a target and say “I want him.” Then you’d go and get him but now nobody seems to understand how it works.

Maybe it’s the American way? But in football it doesn’t work like that.

The fans keep telling me it needs to be more transparent so if it does go wrong then fingers can be pointed in the right direction – and not the manager.

Who does what on this committee? They’re absolutely livid Liverpool fans – all over the country – they’re fuming after an awful season.

Whether it’s in Liverpool when I’m having a pint or elsewhere, people are coming up to me saying: “Aldo, what’s going on” and I just have to tell them that I don’t know.

They’re telling me that whoever is to blame needs to be made accountable and I can see their point.

We know how it works at other clubs and we hear stuff that they’re basing some stuff on statistics but if people aren’t doing their job then they shouldn’t hide behind others.

We’ve brought a lot of players in for big money so if they don’t do the business then someone has to hold their hand up because Brendan Rodgers is taking the brunt for everything.

Is it his fault? We don’t know.

Brendan should be living and dying by the sword with the players he wants.

We need two really big signings that will get people off their seats – that’s what we deserve as one of the biggest clubs in the world.

I want outsiders to say “Wow, Liverpool mean business again, look at that.”

We don’t want potential no more, we don’t want to become a feeder club for other teams because that’s what will happen if we keep buying them young.

We’ll have them for three or four years and if we can’t get in the Champions League they’ll go off to these teams that are in it.

What will happen is the likes of Raheem Sterling and those who come after him will do well for a few seasons then get picked off by other clubs.

Liverpool have got to be careful here. We’re on the turn and this is a big summer with Steven Gerrard going.

The model is going to have to be altered a little bit. If they have to give these players £150,000-£200,000-a-week then they’re going to have to break the wage structure somehow.

For me they can’t just keep buying youthful players.

Next season we’ve got to get back into the Champions League or it’s going to get worrying.

All the big names have left Anfield

There are no big names at the club. Steven Gerrard is going while Luis Suarez and Jamie Carragher have both departed over the past two summers.

With all due respect to those who are left, they’re not in the same category.

Also, we’ve always had a Scouse identity combined with world class players throughout the years who jump out at you and everyone knows their name. Now we’re left with not much of either.

Emre Can has been the light out of the new bunch. I think he should get a run next season in the midfield area – he’s only 21 and could be a diamond.

Personally I think he could go on and become a really big player in world football.

I want to be fair to the likes of Dejan Lovren and Lazar Markovic who cost £40million between them but they’ve been very ordinary at best.

Albert Moreno has gone backwards but he’s only young and I think there’s a chance with him.

There’s always a settling in period and you’ve got to give them a bit of leeway in this day and age and it’s taken a while for some of them.

Rickie Lambert hasn’t played but he was only £4million and if he goes to get playing time elsewhere we’d probably be able to get more than what we paid for him.

As for targets, for me it’s got to be Christian Benteke all day long. He’s got 13 goals in his last 13 games and knows the Premier League.

Then a real top drawer midfielder – world class – but how we do that not being in the Champions League I don’t know. It’s a big job and a big summer.

Reds unable to paper over the cracks

It was an emotional day for Steven Gerrard on Saturday. Ultimately that’s all the day was about.

The performance didn’t surprise me really. We’ve got no goals in the team.

In a way it wasn’t bad because we’re not papering over the cracks and we can see plain and hard what we’ve got.

We were beaten fairly and squarely by a Crystal Palace side that always looked more threatening than us.

They had power and pace up front and a midfield of Yannick Bolasie and Jason Puncheon who just ran the show.

With the exception of a really well-taken goal by Adam Lallana, we were blunt again.

Other than that it was largely forgettable.

I expected more from our players for Steven Gerrard

I’d have expected a bit more from our players on Saturday.

There’s no more motivation than to go through a brick wall for your captain who has gone through a brick wall for them and a lot of other players in the past.

It says quite a lot about the players. The fact we’re top of the Fair Play, I don’t like that.

At the end of the day you’ve got to get stuck in and not shy out of things.

I don’t want to go overboard with it but sometimes we don’t seem strong enough or committed enough.

If we mess up at Stoke and end up dropping to seventh then we could be starting our European campaign at the beginning of July which would be embarrassing.