No transfer targets in sight for Liverpool

Liverpool boss Kenny Dalglish does not expect the club to be busy during the January transfer window.

The Merseyside outfit have been linked with a move for Aston Villa striker Darren Bent in recent weeks, with the club looking to remedy their current failings in front of goal.

However, the Scotsman has played down speculation by insisting that he is happy with the current squad at Anfield, and that any targets the club may be chasing are with a view to the long term.

“We’re not really chasing after anybody that we want to bring in in January,” Dalglish said on Friday.

“We’ve been happy with what they (the players) have done since August.”

“We’ve got an option to be active if we want to be active, but we said at the outset that we’d be quiet.”

The Reds currently sit sixth in the Premier League table, and Dalglish has admitted he is happy with the team’s progress, but also hit out at reports linking the club with moves for a number of players in the transfer window.

“It’s work in progress for us. We’ll just keep doing what we’re doing, and the boys will keep working as hard as they can, and we’ll see where we go,” he said.

“If we needed somebody to bolster up, we could do it – but I said right at the outset, we don’t.”

He added: “I don’t think it is unusual when we said at the start we would not be very busy. I think it’s unusual when people try to invent things, get it horribly wrong and then ask us to justify it.”

“We said right at the outset, if anything there will be very little (transfer activity). It’s a wee bit disrespectful to us after trying to be honest and saying there might not be much, that we get accused of not being active.”