Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers admits he's spoken with Raheem Sterling since that interview with the BBC. Rodgers was speaking after their rout at Arsenal.

"I've had a good chat with him. I have given him my opinion on it. This is a young kid who has been advised to do something else. A 20-year-old boy does not pick up the phone to ask to speak to the BBC.

"You don't do that; him in particular. He just wants to play his football. But of course if he's asked to do that by other parties then that's what he'll do.

"In the modern game it is obviously something that frustrates us all but it is the market and where football is at. In fairness to Raheem, I brought him in from the youth team and the reserves and I know that a big part of this is actually nothing to do with him."