Former Liverpool captain Paul Ince says the current strike-force simply isn't good enough.

Ince admits his old club have suffered from the sale of Luis Suarez to Barcelona.

"Quite apart from Luis Suarez, I can't understand why Daniel Agger left in the summer," Ince told the Mail on Sunday. "I thought he was fantastic and left-sided centre-halves are priceless. Instead of spending £20million on Dejan Lovren, they could have saved the money. I'd have spent whatever it took on a great striker like Edinson Cavani or Radamel Falcao, make a statement to replace Suarez and the 35 goals he scored. Instead they tried to buy five or six new players to share the goals around and it hasn't materialised.

"You need top strikers. City have Sergio Aguero, Chelsea have Costa, even at the bottom of the table QPR have Charlie Austin and Burnley have Danny Ings. Top clubs need more than one. When City lose Aguero, they bring in Edin Dzeko. Liverpool lose Daniel Sturridge and nobody is scoring."