Liverpool legend Dirk Kuyt says the current team is better than the 2008-09 squad.

Managed by Rafa Benitez, the Reds finished second behind Manchester United that year with a squad featuring Fernando Torres, Steven Gerrard and Javier Mascherano.

And Kuyt thinks Jurgen Klopp's side will go one better this season.

"We were very close to success," Kuyt told Liverpool's official website of the 2008-09 squad, "we just missed a small detail to go one step further.

"With the likes of Stevie [Gerrard] and Jamie Carragher, Mascherano, Torres and other very good players, we just missed a little something.

"If you see the build-up of the team of Klopp, you see it progressing every time and it looks like it's now coming to success also in the Premier League. We were a particular team like that, only we couldn't go one step further at that time.

"Hopefully this team will do it because, in my opinion, this team now on the pitch is even better than ours."