Tom Ince & Daniel Sturridge are set for Liverpool

Brendan Rodgers has warned Liverpool's problems will not be solved by the deals he aims to complete in the January window.

Liverpool are set to be one of the most active clubs next month and they will unveil Daniel Sturridge and Tom Ince within days of the window opening.

Sturridge is heading to Merseyside from Chelsea for around £12million, while Ince is poised to return to Anfield at a cost of £6million less than 18months after he was allowed to join Blackpool.

Those players will give Liverpool a depth to their striking options that has been lacking  all season but Rodgers has made it clear they will not provide the answer to other issues which must be addressed.

Though Liverpool are not too far off the top four, the 3-1 weekend defeat to Aston Villa provided a timely reminder that Rodgers' squad are short of the necessary class to be considered Champions League contenders.

'There is a bigger picture for sure and it goes back to affordability,' said Rodgers. 

'We will spend money in January to try and bring fresh faces and give us that support at the top end the reality is all the names bandied about are they going to be available? 

'Certainly we will bring in what we can and help us and then we will revisit it again. All our problems were never going to be solved in this window because the January window is one of the least productive and the least movement goes on there. 

'But we will look to solve some of our problems then and then we will look to revisit it in the summer knowing that in the summer we will be in a much better placed then we were the previous summer.'

The previous window ended in farce, as Liverpool missed out on signing Clint Dempsey from Fulham, but Rodgers is adamant the situation now in terms of recruitment is vastly different. He has no doubt Fenway Sports Group, Liverpool's owners, will back him.

'There is no doubt we will get reinforcements in and there is no doubt that we will get the backing, but it will come down to two things,' he said. 'The availability and affordability of players.

'I see lots of names bandied about and with all due respect names that are pie in the sky because there won't be too many top players moving about in January because clubs want top money. 

'But there is no doubt that we want to bring in goals and we want to bring in players who can assist in scoring goals. 

'If we can do that then that will set us up and then we can really reinforce again when the market opens up in the summer again.' 

At the double: Liverpool are set to sign Daniel Sturridge and Tom Ince in January