Lazar Markovic: 'I can be the best'

Liverpool attacker Lazar Markovic has claimed that he has the potential to be one of the Premier League's finest players.

Markovic sealed a £20m move to Anfield this summer after helping Benfica to a domestic treble in his one and only season with the club last term.

Success in Portugal followed a run of three consecutive league titles in his native Serbia with FK Partizan, and the 20-year-old says that he is well-equipped to help the Reds improve on their second-place finish from last season.

"I am ready to play straight away," he told The Mirror. "I can become one of the best players in the Premier League.

"Perhaps I am so confident because in every season I have played I have finished as a ­champion.

"I thought that Liverpool were the best team last season and, yes, I thought they should have been ­champions. Luck played a part in the outcome of the title."

Markovic is expected to make his competitive debut in Monday's trip to champions Manchester City.