Former Liverpool and Tottenham defender John Scales says the Reds must be careful with how they spend their Luis Suarez cash.
Scales is confident Brendan Rodgers will ensure they don't "do a Tottenham".
He to the Daily Express: "Of course the similarities are that Liverpool have lost Suarez while 12 months ago Tottenham sold Gareth Bale. But those parallels will have been drawn at Liverpool and Brendan Rodgers will have seen the experience they suffered at Spurs.
"With the way the players were brought in by the director of football and the whole process of getting them to White Hart Lane, with hindsight it did not work well for Spurs.
"The players signed all bought into Andre Villas-Boas's philosophy but failed to hit the floor running. The next thing, AVB was sacked and the new players were all disillusioned. There were a specific set of circumstances at Tottenham but it is not just them - any club bringing in a lot of new players have the challenge of integrating them.
"But as a player it is so much easier to settle into a clearly defined system where everybody knows what they are doing and that is what Brendan Rodgers has got at Liverpool.
"Brendan knows that the personalities of the players are as important as their abilities.
"That said, nobody's personality is as important as his own. He has the strength of character to be able to bring new players into alignment with his current system and the back-up to help him do it.
"Rodgers enjoys a structure and organisation behind him that is much more stable than Villas-Boas had at Spurs. There was no clear alignment ever at White Hart Lane."
