Liverpool boss Rafa Benitez has hit out at the Sunday press over reports of a reopening of the rift with the club's American owners.

He told Sky Sports: "It's no surprise. Everybody in Liverpool knows there that are two newspapers you that cannot trust, this is one of them.

"He talks of it being an exclusive; but the journalist is lying. I was talking with the Spanish press - he was manipulating everything. So he's lying."