Aston Villa great Paul McGrath says Liverpool have paid for failing to copy the great teams of the past.
He wrote for the Sunday World: "I fear Liverpool now are paying the bill for not copying their predecessors of the 1970s and 1980s, who always bought a top player in the summer after they won a league.
"Liverpool didn't bring in serious reinforcements after they won the Champions League in 2019.
"Jurgen Klopp knew he had the bones of a title-winning team on his hands.
"What he didn't know was that a global pandemic would come along and financial needs would then stop him from buying anyone other than Thiago Alcantara last summer.
"So basically Liverpool are working off more or less the same group of players they had in August 2018 when they began that season that ended in such a joust with Manchester City at home and with Euro glory in Madrid.
"In those first two seasons, they hardly had an injury either."
