Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers has said that players like Luis Suarez need to feel that there is "hope" of Champions League football if they are to remain at Anfield.
The Reds are 10 points adrift of the top four at the midway point of this season as Rodgers continues his rebuilding project in Merseyside.
"I don't want people who don't want to be here, but top players like Steven Gerrard, Daniel Agger and Luis Suarez have all committed to the cause," Rodgers told the Mail on Sunday.
"They obviously feel there is hope that the model will work.
'The reality is we're a team that haven't been challenging for the last number of years and it is going to need that wee bit of time."
Rodgers and Liverpool travel to rock-bottom Queens Park Rangers in the final Premier League match of 2012 this afternoon.
