Rodgers wary of making mistakes

The Reds are set to seal a 7.7m deal for Celta Vigo forward Iago Aspas while Sevilla winger Luis Alberto is also on Rodgers' radar.

"I'm looking to bring 20 more goals into the team," said Rodgers. "I'm looking at another offensive player to give us a real threat on goal and another attacking midfield player. We definitely need to do that, especially if we're going to put some young ones out on loan to gain experience."

After spending almost 30m last year on Fabio Borini, Joe Allen and Oussama Assaidi, who failed to start a single Premier League match, Rodgers is aware that he must invest carefully this summer.

"It's not easy when you can't make mistakes," he said. "We want to keep the acceleration and pushing on, so this is a very important window for us in the summer. We have to do our best to make it right, because the players who need to come in have to be effective right from the off.

"I'm not here to be comfortable, to sit and earn the money and just enjoy being the Liverpool manager. There's a pressure that comes with (the role). And I believe we're in a much better place to do that. What we showed last season was promise."

Despite Jamie Carragher's retirement and Martin Skrtel's poor form in the second half of the 2012/13 campaign, Rodgers has faith in Liverpool's defence ahead of a renewed top-four challenge next season.

"There were moments of disappointment and moments of delight but when I look at the reality of it, we scored 47 goals last year and this time got 71 - and we hope to add to that amount. Defensively for a team that was supposedly very strong last year we've only conceded three more goals," he said.

"So in terms of numbers, and performance wise, then we have improved. I believe we will improve again and we have to because we want to sustain a challenge. I think we can do but it will be a tough ask because as we improve other clubs will have masses more money to improve also.

"But I believe we have built a real good base this year. It's not my job to look for excuses, I have to find the solutions to try and push us in there and I believe we won't be too far away."

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