Dalglish lashes City swap claims

Liverpool boss Kenny Dalglish has blasted Manchester City’s claims he tried to instigate a swap between strikers Andy Carroll and Carlos Tevez.

Dalglish is unhappy after the Eastlands outfit revealed the potential exchange, and reiterated the club’s intentions of having no players coming in or out of Anfield before the end of the transfer window.

The Scot insisted Liverpool will not validate the claims and slammed City’s decision to make the alleged deal public knowledge.

“We’re not going to get involved in justifying what people are saying – we don’t have to. Get City to justify it, not us,” Dalglish said.

“We’re not talking about any specific incident, but if you are going to do business in any way shape or form, no matter what life you are in, you don’t need to disclose it until it’s done.”

“As (Liverpool chairman) Tom Werner said the other day, ‘there’s no point letting the facts get in the way of a good story’, when he was talking about Stewart Downing being bought from a clip off YouTube. Do us a favour.”

The 60-year-old said Liverpool would not be having a similarly hectic end to the January transfer window as they did last time round, and insisted Carroll is perfectly happy at the club.

“Nothing is happening at all and we don’t anticipate it to either. Last year was a bit manic but there’ll be nothing this time,” he said.

“There’s no need for us to pass comment on anything that’s been speculative in any way shape or form. We’ve said what’s going to happen, and that’s nothing. It’s quiet.”

“We don’t have any problems with any of the players, because they are all going nowhere.”

“Andy has said he is very happy here and doesn’t regret coming. That’s the best reference you can get, but for some reason the focus always seems to be on the big fella.”