The agent of Liverpool midfielder Raheem Sterling has branded club legend Jamie Carragher a "kn**". Aidy Ward blew a fuse today, speaking with the London Evening Standard, and hit back at the Liverpool Boot Room now working in the media.

Carragher lambasted Sterling for demanding a move away from Liverpool, and said he needed to dump Ward.

But in an extraordinary attack on one of the club's most respected former players, Ward said: "Carragher is a kn**. Everybody knows it. Any of the criticism from current pundits or ex-Liverpool players - none of them things matter to me. It is not relevant."

He said their criticism would be the same if Sterling stayed and then left in two years' time when his contract expires, the only difference being the club would receive less money in transfer fees.

And he also appeared to blame the club for making news about the discussions public, saying: "How did this all occur? There is no smoke without fire."