Liverpool legend John Aldridge fears Jurgen Klopp's team are now OUTSIDERS for a top four finish.

Aldo wrote for the Sunday World: "Just two months ago, it looked like Jurgen Klopp's men were in a two-team fight for the Premier League title, but I suggested in my column back then that Liverpool could not win the title unless a top-quality defender arrived in the January transfer window.

"There were plenty of Liverpool fans on my Twitter feed telling me I was being too pessimistic to doubt Klopp's ability to find a way to plug the holes left by first-choice defenders Virgil van Dijk and Joe Gomez.

"Yet all my warnings have now come home to roost and in a manner that's left everyone who has witnessed Liverpool's collapse scrambling for answers.

"The harsh truth is that Liverpool have lost their way in a manner that has done so much damage to their self-belief and confidence that they are now outsiders to claim a top-four finish.

"I never believed I'd be writing those words in late February, but it's the only conclusion we can come to.

"This is a Liverpool team that has lost four times at Anfield for the first time in a century, a side that looks to have run out of ideas and a set of players whose confidence has been shattered."