Former Liverpool manager, Brendan Rodgers, has spoken about how determined his old club were to sign Alexis Sanchez back in 2014.

While it’s hardly a secret that Liverpool wanted to sign Alexis from Barcelona before Arsenal beat them to it in 2014, Rodgers has revealed that the Merseyside club were targeting the Chilean in order to replace Luis Suarez.

“We felt like Luis [Suarez] was going to move on and we needed to get a world-class operator to go like-for-like,” Rodgers told TalkSport.

“We finished second in the league playing a great level of football. Players were flexible in how they could play and then it was about trying to make that next step.

“And for that we needed to get a replacement. And we deemed Sanchez to be that one.”

Liverpool finished second in the Premier League during the 2013/14 season. They missed out on their first ever Premier League title to Manchester City by just two points.

A year after Suarez was heavily linked with a move to north London, the striker moved to Barcelona.

The Uruguayan netted a whopping 31 Premier League goals and assisted 21 during his final season under Rodgers, near enough earning Liverpool second-place by himself.

Liverpool have never been able to recreate the success of that season and it seems that Rodgers, who’s now in charge of Celtic, believes that one of the main reasons for this is not replacing Suarez with Alexis.

As we all know, the 28-year-old came to Arsenal for £35m and the money that Liverpool would have used to sign him from Barca filtered down to strengthen the squad in other areas. Just obviously not the right ones.