John Aldridge hopes owners Fenway Sports Group give new Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers the necessary time and money to be a success at Anfield.
Rodgers: Set to be unveiled
The Northern Irishman will be officially presented as the new Reds boss at a press conference in Anfield's trophy room on Friday morning after a compensation package was agreed with Swansea.
FSG are looking for Rodgers to improve the club's fortunes more with his football philosophy than by spending heavily in the transfer market but Aldridge would like to see the 39-year-old backed in the transfer market by the Americans.
"It will be difficult when you look at what Chelsea are planning to do in the summer and what Manchester City and Manchester United will do. Tottenham will strengthen, too," he told Sky Sports.
"But Liverpool's squad underachieved massively last year. The squad is much better than where they finished (eighth).
"Hopefully the regime will give Rodgers money to go out and spend to do a lot better in the league.
"Liverpool have to be knocking on the door for fourth place, not languishing 17 points behind the Champions League spots, regardless of how well we did in the cups.
"Obviously they (FSG) will have to give him something. He may have to wheel and deal a bit and get rid of one or two players who he doesn't see fit to be playing for Liverpool to bring in more money."
Rodgers will become Liverpool's 20th manager in their 120-year history but their fourth in the last two years after Roy Hodgson and Kenny Dalglish were given short shrift after their attempts to follow on from Rafael Benitez.
He will bring with him assistant Colin Pascoe, performance analyst Chris Davies and head of sports science and medicine Glen Driscoll.
Swansea were looking for between £4million and £5million to compensate them for the loss of Rodgers, who only signed a new three-and-a-half-year contract in February.
In addition there was some additional negotiation by the Welsh club over recompense for the loss of their other staff.
FSG will hope, after an exhaustive search over the last fortnight, the Northern Irishman is the man who will lead the club into a new era at Anfield after the chopping and changing which has taken place in recent times.
They are implementing a new structure which they believe will bring more stability to the club in terms of their operations and the appointment of Rodgers signals the start of that sea-change.
Further details are expected to be revealed at the press conference regarding the Americans' ideas about the roles of sporting and technical directors, considering Rodgers was not keen to cede control of football matters to a higher authority.
Source : http://soccer365.com//news/european_news/general/17571/aldridge__give_rodgers_cash
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