Liverpool have ruled out a sensational move to bring Steven Gerrard back to the club in a playing capacity in order for him to claim a Premier League winners' medal.
The Anfield legend won everything in the game bar England's top prize during a 17-year playing career, leaving in 2015 for a brief spell in Major League Soccer with LA Galaxy before retiring.
A section of Liverpool fans have called on Gerrard - now manager at Rangers - to return to the club on a short-term playing contract to make him eligible for a winners' medal.
But chief executive Peter Moore has explained why such an idea is impossible.
"Let me explain what would have to happen," he told a Cape Town Official Liverpool Supporters Club event.
"So the question is, 'can we bring Steven Gerrard back to get a Premier League medal?’ and the question I ask you is: which player do you want to cut from the squad to make that happen?
"If you haven't noticed, he's the employee of a different football club at the same time as well.
"Look, we all love Stevie G and we're all very proud of him for his managerial career, but I keep seeing this 'bring him in on a five-day contract so he can win a medal' [but] it just doesn't happen that way.
"Chemistry in a dressing room is important. Can you imagine that? That you have to cut a player, to say 'you're not going to get a medal'?
"It's not like they're handing these things out to everybody, you've got a squad, right? And thirdly, you can't add a player to a squad once it's locked. Other than that, it's really possible."
