Liverpool boss Roy Hodgson has suggested outside forces are manoeuvring Dirk Kuyt towards Inter Milan. And the 62-year-old claimed Inter's ex-Reds boss Rafael Benitez would be reneging on an agreement not to raid Anfield for former players.
Hodgson denied any knowledge of Kuyt wanting to leave despite suggestions by his agent that talks between the two clubs are continuing.
"Dirk has not expressed that sentiment to me," said Hodgson, who insisted the assurances he had received from Inter president Massimo Moratti last week that the Italians were not intending to buy any Liverpool players still held firm.
"When he left the club Rafael Benitez signed an agreement that he would not poach players from Liverpool.
"We haven't received an offer from any club so this is something obviously going on behind the scenes, with the agent possibly talking to the manager of Inter Milan.
"We don't welcome any offers, we haven't received an offer and at this late stage of the transfer window it would be remarkably unusual for us to accept an offer for a player we don't want to leave for money we don't need.
"I would suggest, with respect, if his agent had a serious plan to move him to the club he should have been working during the last four to five weeks and not the last few days.
"It is highly unlikely we could receive any offer from another club which we could seriously entertain."
