Former Liverpool midfielder Jan Molby believes the Merseyside club are in danger of becoming a ‘cup team’ unless money is spent on new players in the summer.
Liverpool take on Chelsea in the FA Cup final on Saturday looking to add to their earlier success in the Carling Cup.
Molby feels that despite a poor league campaign two trophies would still signify a good season for Kenny Dalglish’s side.
He told Press Association Sport: “This season we can’t deny it (being a cup side), hopefully that’ll change next year.
“Sometimes you do particularly well in away games whereas Liverpool have fallen into doing well into cup competitions.
“I hope that is not going to be the way going forward, I hope we are going to get back to doing very well in the Premier League next season but if we can win two cups this year then it has been an extremely successful season.”
Ex-Denmark international Molby, who spent 12 years at Anfield and won two FA Cup finals, reckons the competition is still the best in the world and thinks the fans may rather see their side lift silverware than compete for a top four position in the league.
“We can talk about the Champions League and World Cup but I think this is the biggest. I have had no better feeling in my career than walking around Wembley after having won the FA Cup, that was the ultimate.
“I think it is really difficult because when you go to Wembley the feeling is great and the day lives in the memories of the fans..
“It has been six years since Liverpool have won anything so I think the fans would take a couple of trophies this season and then exchange those for a top four finish next season.”
Former Liverpool striker Fernando Torres has found form for the first time since his controversial move to Chelsea last January.
Molby is under no illusions that the Champions League finalists will offer a tough test and that a winning goal from their former hero would hurt the Liverpool fans.
“There are a number of players you have to be worried about, Chelsea have shown over the last few weeks how good they are,” he said.
“Fernando Torres is one of them, we know what he can do we know what he is capable of on his day, I just hope they start with (Didier) Drogba.
“I don’t know if the pain will be easier to take if it is Drogba and not Torres (who scores a winning goal for Chelsea) but I hope it is a great game and I hope that Liverpool win.”
The 48-year-old Molby played under Dalglish during the Scot’s first managerial reign at Anfield and he believes there remains no better man for the job.
He said: “I think as we stand here he (Dalglish) is 100 per cent the right man, that might change in the long term; it is a project, it is going to take time.
“I hope the owners have more money and more appetite for spending in the summer because that is the only way I can see us getting closer to the top teams.”
