Rafael Benitez has revealed he is prepared to sell Milan Baros to fund the strengthening of his new look squad.
The Czech striker is in the squad for tonight's Champions League clash in Bulgaria but the manager has admitted he can leave Anfield if the club receive an acceptable transfer fee.
With Benitez keen to add a central defender and a right sided midfielder to his squad before the end of the month, he sees Baros as a saleable buttet due to the amount of strikers already on the books at Anfield.
He said: "I like Milan. He is a good player. But we need to use the money to buy players in other positions.
"It is not because we are disappointed with Milan. We need this money so we can look at other positions and improve them. We have six or seven strikers at the club and we know we can get money for one of them, so this is one thing we can do. It is like if you have three left backs at a club. You don't need that many, so you can sell one if you want.
"I read a lot of rumours about the situation and some clubs seem to be asking about taking the player on loan. We are not thinking about letting him out on loan. We will keep him if we don't have a good enough offer."
He added: "We will try to find a centre back good enough for us, with or without any money from a Baros sale. It's just that if we have more money then it makes things easier. We are working with Zak Whitbread and we are happy with him, but we need another player in that position.
"It's really difficult to sign the players we want at the moment. Our pre-season started a lot earlier than most clubs and that was a problem for us in terms of signing players. Some clubs are only deciding now what kind of signings they will need, but we have already been talking about it for three weeks. We still have three more weeks before the transfer deadline."
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