What’s Correct?

rogersgeorge on June 16th, 2022

I’m not sure about the grammar in that last panel, what the boss says:

https://comicskingdom.com/Intelligent/2022-06-13

I can think of three ways to say the verbs in his comment.

I would have liked to see that a year ago.
I would have liked to have seen that a year ago.
I would like to have seen that a year ago.

Which one is best? Are the others incorrect? What are the differences in meaning?

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