Crystal Palace boss Roy Hodgson has cooled talk of a move for Liverpool striker Danny Ings.

Palace and West Ham have been linked with the fit-again forward.

But Hodgson said: "I don't know (about that link).

"I was told that today and I'm always amazed that stories can be printed as fact without being checked out.

"We haven't talked about Danny Ings coming here on loan with anybody.

"I don't quite understand how stories appear without checking it out first. It's not coming from me. I like Danny Ings of course, but I like lots of players.

"We have absolutely no idea about his situation, I don't know how well he has recovered from his injury.

"I don't know what Liverpool's situation regarding him is. There would be an awful lot of questions to answer before that happens.

"At the moment we are nowhere near that level of discussion with either Danny Ings or anybody else."