Liverpool must improve five areas of their squad in the next five months to turn it from title-winners into a serious dynasty both here and in Europe - this is how they can do it, writes LEWIS STEELE

The setting is a convention centre just down the road from the home of the Boston Red Sox, Fenway Park, on a cheerful spring afternoon not too dissimilar from the weather in the United Kingdom this week.

An unassuming gentleman sporting jeans and a hoodie is chatting away to all manner of folk and the general gist is that whatever happens, he is happy in his current job and will not be leaving.

The man is the lesser-spotted Michael Edwards, a private individual who is as important to the success of Liverpool in the last decade as Jurgen Klopp and Mohamed Salah.