Aston Villa’s steady midfielder Gareth Barry and Tottenham’s crafty forward Robbie Keane look to set be Liverpool’s two most significant transfers this summer - if the club can secure their signatures - but in my opinion it is a another flying winger that would benefit the team most.

With Ryan Babel already making an impressively vibrant impact last season on the left side of midfield, I believe a similar type of player on the right would be extremely helpful to the side’s stuttering attacking play.

Only the surging forward runs of inspirational captain Steven Gerrard and the clinical finishing of Spaniard Fernando Torres sparked our offensive play last season as well as the Dutchman, and if the club want to challenge for major honours this time around then more contributions will be needed.

Put Torres to one side and Liverpool’s other strikers simply didn’t score enough goals. Andriy Voronin turned out to be one of the worst signings I have ever seen by Liverpool, Peter Crouch didn’t play often enough to put a string of good performances together and Dirk Kuyt was mainly deployed as a right-sided midfielder and in a position completely different to his preferred role. Crouch has since been sold to Portsmouth for a hefty fee, but Voronin and Kuyt remain.

The arrival of Keane should be a huge boost in this department though, and a forward partnership with Torres could flourish into one of the most potent strike forces in the Premier League. If the Tottenham striker does eventually end up at Anfield, then Rafael Benitez must partner the pair up front together. It would be criminal not to. Kuyt and Voronin would then have to play second fiddle to those two, and sitting on the bench may occur quite often for them, because Kuyt can surely not be thrown into the right-midfield berth once again.

When the Dutch forward plays there, it limits the team’s attacking options hugely because he is not a winger who can take on full-backs or swing in a beautifully-delivered cross. Jermaine Pennant is more in that mould, but injuries, bad performances and off-field matters mean that he has slipped down the pecking order somewhat.