Arne Slot responds to Liverpool transfer link with Milos Kerkez after Bournemouth win

Arne Slot has played down Liverpool’s transportation nexus with Milos Kerkez aft his side’s 2-0 triumph implicit Bournemouth connected Saturday.

Kerkez has been 1 of Bournemouth’s standout performers this play and has been linked with a determination to Liverpool successful the summertime transportation window.

Earlier this month, Kerkez insisted that helium would not beryllium moving to Liverpool arsenic helium said during a YouTube unrecorded stream: ‘I volition not spell to Liverpool. For everybody listening, I volition not spell to Liverpool.’

And speaking aft Liverpool’s triumph distant to Bournemouth, Slot refused to entertain the imaginable of signing the 21-year-old this summer.

When asked straight if Liverpool are considering a determination for Kerkez astatine the extremity of the season, Slot replied: ‘I don’t deliberation I person to speech astir players that we are funny in, fto unsocial a subordinate from Bournemouth.

‘He’s playing implicit here, he’s having a large season, arsenic many, galore different players are present arsenic well.

‘It shows you astir apt however bully of a manager you have, and what a large sports manager you had, oregon inactive have, I don’t cognize however the 1 is doing now, helium brought successful precise bully players and this manager works with them successful an unthinkable mode due to the fact that helium brings the champion retired of each azygous player, including the 1 you conscionable mentioned.

‘But I’m not talking astir an individual, they are each bringing the champion retired of their crippled astatine the moment.’

Two goals from Mohamed Salah sealed Liverpool’s triumph implicit Bournemouth which has extended their pb astatine the apical of the Premier League to 9 points.

Liverpool are adjacent successful enactment distant to Everton connected Wednesday evening.

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