Carragher: Liverpool must focus on the top four
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After a season of turbulence on and off the pitch, Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher claims that the club will be focused on just getting back into the top four next season.
Having finished seventh in the Premier League, Liverpool were usurped in the Champions League places by Tottenham and only just made it into the Europa League behind Aston Villa and Manchester City.
But with the future of manager Rafa Benitez up in the air and the continuing issues surrounding co-owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett, Carragher believes that, instead of attempting to reignite a strong title challenge, the club should just target finishing in the top four again.
"Clubs like Real Madrid and Inter Milan can just throw £100 million at new players if they don't win the title,'' he told the People. "But Liverpool can't do that. We have to build. We can't just raid the transfer market.
"Next season, rather than thinking too much about the title, we have to concentrate on getting back in the top four."