"The next two or three months are going to be very interesting," said the Liverpool captain. "Things are going to change and there'll be some money available to invest in the team.
"That's nice to know because we need three or four new faces to freshen things up on the playing side.
"It goes without saying that we all want to make next season a better one than this. In fact we won't have another season like this - I'm positive about that.
"There's no doubt that the squad needs strengthening if we are to get back up among the top three because they are operating on another level to us at the moment.
"If I come back and there are only one or two new faces here then I don't think that will be good enough for this club.
"I've been promised this won't be the case, though, so I'm optimistic for the future.
"I'm a fan myself and I'm frustrated just as much as them when we get beat. I listen to the phone-ins on the way home and I know how the fans feel.
"I share their frustration at times and I get down just like them when we suffer a bad result."