Rafa wants three or four more

After Rafa Benitez's Liverpool were dumped after the Champions League last night, the Spaniard has asked his board to approve three or four new players for their preparation for next season.

"Clearly now we have to start thinking about the future. We must improve and we will add quality to the squad," said Benitez, with Liverpool fans around the world thinking they have heard this same speech one time too many.

"We have two more games in the Premier League to go and obviously we will try to win them both to give our season a good ending.

"But we will be looking at the squad and preparing for next season. You can see we are closer to the top but we still need three or four new players.

"We need to keep working, our scouting department is certainly doing that. We have two more games and will try to win them and then improve the squad for next season."