Benitez: Torres is right, we do need to bring in new players

• Poignant

  8 Apr 10, 01:11

  Liverpool boss Rafa Benitez insists: Fernando Torres is right, we do need to bring in new players this summer
  

  Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez agrees with star striker Fernando Torres' frank assessment of his team's failings.

  Torres has claimed that a spate of summer departures meant 'everything got messed up' for the Reds this season.

  Having begun the campaign among the favourites for the Premier League title, Liverpool are looking increasingly unlikely to even finish fourth.

  

  Under pressure: Rafa Benitez agrees with Fernando Torres that Liverpool need to bring in new players this summer

  A draw at Birmingham on Sunday has left them sixth, four points adrift of that all-important Champions League-qualifying position, having played a game more than both Manchester City in fourth and Tottenham in fifth.

  Benitez concedes his squad need major investment this summer to force its way back among the title contenders.

  The Spaniard said: 'I agree with Fernando about a lot of things. He talks about it being a pity we finished with 86 points last year and we couldn't progress.

  'We need to sign some players, we need to bring some money. We need an investor and then we can challenge in a better way.

  'The players are working so hard and they feel they can do more.

  'Fernando the other day (at Birmingham), he was feeling really tired. He was trying and the other players were trying but while we don't have the investor it will be difficult to go one step forward.'

  

  Battle: Fernando Torres vies with Benfica's Fabio Coentrao during last week's first leg

  Benitez was speaking ahead of the Europa League quarter-final second leg against Benfica at Anfield.

  Liverpool trail 2-1 from the first meeting in Lisbon but the competition looks like their best hope of salvaging something from the season.

  'We will try to do our best to win,' Benitez said.

  'Hopefully we can balance the books this year. We need now to perform on the pitch and create a better situation for the new investors.'

  When asked whether he could elaborate on whether owners George Gillett and Tom
  Hicks have offered any indication that new investment might be imminent, Benitez avoided the question in familiar style.

  He said: 'I understand the players, we have to stick together and prepare for a Europa League game.'

• TTFU

  8 Apr 10, 01:14

  I actually laughed when i read this, dono y

• Rooney9

  8 Apr 10, 01:17

  Originally posted by TTFU:

  I actually laughed when i read this, dono y

  cos of their predicament?

• TTFU

  8 Apr 10, 01:19

  Seems ironic since the player he brings in mostly all crap

• As romanista2001

  9 Apr 10, 20:30

  Rafa..........

   

  '' yes, we're always in need of new players................becoz, only 1 out of 10 or 15 players i sign will have a chance of working out................... so i need 40-50 new players every season..........but the club got no money to spend..............BOOOOOOHOOOOO...................''