Liverpool hero John Aldridge has called on manager Jurgen Klopp to change his attitude towards Cup competitions.
Aldridge wrote for the Sunday World: "Great teams are defined by trophy successes and that's why I want to see Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool to go all out for domestic cup glory this season.
"The Liverpool team I was a part of in the late 1980s is remembered as one of the greatest sides in England and some of the football we played was second to none.
"Yet the lack of trophies is the primary reason we are not considered among the best of them all.
"Now I'm biased and would argue Liverpool's 1987/88 title-winning team was as good as any we have seen in the English game, with John Barnes in his prime, Ray Houghton at his best and Peter Beardsley a great partner for me up front.
"The problem is, you look back at the record of that team and it does not have the list of honours it should have done.
"My penalty miss in the 1988 FA Cup final denied us a chance to win the domestic double, but let's not dwell on this moment for too long as it still hurts to this day.
"Then we were denied the league title the following season by a freak result against Arsenal in the final game of a season shattered by the horrors of the Hillsborough disaster.
"English clubs were also banned from European competition at the time and that meant we couldn't have a go at the great AC Milan side in the European Cup.
"So the final record of our team means they can't be considered as greats simply because we didn't get the trophies of the Liverpool teams that went before.
"This is where Klopp has missed a trick in the domestic cup competitions during his time.
"We all appreciate the Champions League and Premier League have become the big cash cows of the game and they are the trophies the big clubs want to win.
"Yet only two or even one side can get their hands on those trophies every season and this is why Klopp needs to change his attitude to domestic cup competitions."
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