Jamie Redknapp believes things at Liverpool will only get worse before they get better.

The Reds fell from second place to sixth this season, scoring half the goals they did in 2013/14, in what was a tough campaign at Anfield.

With captain Steven Gerrard on his way to MLS and talented winger Raheem Sterling asking to be sold, former Reds midfielder Redknapp suggests it is going to be a very tricky test for the Merseysiders over the next little while.

"It's going to be a difficult summer," he told Sky Sports' end of season review show.

"Gerrard is leaving, you're going to have the Raheem Sterling debacle, which is going to run and run and run, then what do you do with Mario Balotelli? Keep him or sell him?

"It's going to be the toughest season for Liverpool in many, many years. There are so many players I feel aren't good enough to play for Liverpool and maybe their future isn't there, but how do you get them out of the door and then get the right players to come in?

"If you think Rodgers is the right man, do you trust him with another £100m? That's a problem for him because the recruitment this year hasn't really worked, the players they've bought in haven't been of the top level of the players who have gone out.

"At the time I said I didn't think they'd do what Tottenham did, but it's very similar to when Spurs sold Gareth Bale. The players that came in weren't at the top level.

"Sometimes you're better off buying one superstar rather than seven or eight and hoping they're all going to settle - because they haven't for Liverpool. They haven't been able to make up the difference between what Luis Suarez brought them."