The agent of Fulham goalkeeper Antti Niemi admits they received interest from Liverpool earlier this summer.

"We had several clubs interested in Antti, one of which was Liverpool, who wanted him if the deal for Diego Cavalieri didn't go through," Richard Cody told setantasports.com.

"However, they obviously got the Brazilian so that one has no further distance to run.

"As for the links to Rennes, I speak to Antti every day and neither of us know where that one came from."