Former Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher has admitted he could've won the Premier League with Liverpool had they not signed 'three failures'.
Carragher, 43, played his entire career with the Reds before he retired in 2013, but was unable to end the club's long wait for a league title.
Despite coming close over the years, Carragher has admitted better recruitment could have got them 'over the line'.
"It’s well documented that we didn’t win a league title during my time at the club, so I think a lot of managers will look back at signings that didn’t quite get Liverpool over the line when I played," he said on Sky Sports programme Off Script.
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"With Gerard Houllier and Rafa Benitez, we got so close to the title, and then we'd think we are one or two signings away, and those singings never quite worked.
"I always think of the effect of what Van Dijk has had at Liverpool, Mo Salah or Alisson – Jurgen Klopp had got the team so close, a Champions League final and then so close with City in the title race, but he needed those signings to get him over the line, and they worked.
"We finished second in 2001/02, and on the back of the 2002 World Cup – we bought three players that summer [El Hadji Diouf, Salif Diao and Bruno Cheyrou] and they were all failures. The team didn’t work and it went backwards.
"It’s not just about pointing the fingers at the players who came in, because the players already at the club needed to perform, but you just think: ‘If these signings had worked, would that have made a big difference?’ That’s where I think we fell down."
Carragher made 737 appearances for Liverpool and won the FA Cup, League Cup, Champions League, UEFA Super Cup and the UEFA Cup - but they always fell short of lifting the Premier League trophy.
The club were made to wait until 2020, seven years after Carragher retired, to secure their first league title since 1990.
