Liverpool hero Jan Molby believes they gaffed not signing Tottenham defender Davinson Sanchez.

Molby thinks Liverpool were wrong to focus on signing Southampton stopper Virgil van Dijk, and believes the club's pulling power would have seen them beat Tottenham to Sanchez this summer.

"Was Van Dijk really the only defender who would have improved this team? I refuse to believe that was the case," he wrote in his column for the Liverpool Echo.

“Of course some weren't for sale but part of scouting is finding players. I wonder about the boy Davinson Sanchez, who went to Spurs from Ajax.

“Why didn't we show any interest in him? I still think we're a more attractive proposition than Spurs. It makes you wonder sometimes.

“A week ago we were thinking we might be able to survive our defensive issues because of how good we've looked going forward.

“But I think deep down as Liverpool fans we knew at some stage it would come back and bite us and that's what's happened."