Rafa dismisses tittle tattle

"We don't talk about the news you read in the press," he siad. "Steven Gerrard is with us, he is our player and tomorrow we have an important game. That is all we are concerned about.

"I speak to Steven always and he says to me that he is focussed on doing his best for Liverpool and that he his high on confidence following his performance against Leverkusen."