Former West Ham United boss Alan Curbishley feels Liverpool are suffering for their failure in the summer market.
Chelsea had nearly the same net spend as Liverpool in the summer and Jose Mourinho adopted a different strategy to Brendan Rodgers.
Curbishley hailed this strategy and said Rodgers now has an unsettled squad, due to the recent influx of signings.
"A lot of managers would have gone another route like Mourinho. Marquee signing up front, marquee signing in midfield, marquee signing at left-back," Alan Curbishley told Sky Sports News HQ.
"Brendan Rodgers decided to spread the money thinly and bring in numbers. He maybe should have been advised to go marquee, marquee, and marquee and bring the players in that were going to do the job.
"Perhaps, bringing in so many players destabilised the squad. Now Brendan has got selection problems.
"There is a lack of confidence there. I think they desperately need to get the results in the Champions League, so that they're still competing in that. In the Premier League they are slowly drifting down, they need results, but they need a settled side."
