Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp remains tight-lipped on Joe Allen’s future.
Stoke City have emerged as the latest contenders to sign the Welsh midfielder with a £13 million bid understood to have been accepted by the Reds.
Interest from the Potters comes on the back of a rejected £8 million offer from the player’s former club Swansea City and Sevilla have made no secret of their admiration.
Allen has entered the final 12 months of his current contract and negotiations over an extension have yet to get underway with Anfield officials.
But Klopp has refused to be drawn on the future of the 26-year-old, who was named as one of Euro 2016’s players of the tournament this summer.
He said: “I like the guy and I really think he is a wonderful football player:
“I knew this before the European Championships, I saw it during the Euros and I know it now. I have said all I can say about this.
“It is all about respecting contracts, negotiating or not – whatever – and make a transfer or not.
“But is it nothing to discuss in public but I’ve not seen him since the middle of May [at the Europa League final] in Basel, sadly.”