Liverpool reject Roma loan bid for Mamadou Sakho

“Sakho is not among the players Liverpool are actively looking to move on before the transfer window closes”, Walsh writes. I think that pressure surprised him and how every error is highlighted and not much is made of your good performances because they’re expected.

‘The spirit is strong but of course it is a hard situation with the transfer market still being open until the end of the month.

Liverpool finished sixth in the Premier League and failed to qualify for the Champions League, having exited the competition at the group stages.

Dejan Lovren was purchased by Liverpool FC in a 20m GBP deal from Southampton last season.

Roma, who finished second to Juventus last season, have just sold defender Alessio Romagnoli to AC Milan for around £18m.

None of them will feature when Liverpool host promoted Bournemouth in the Premier League on Monday, but Joe Gomez is likely to.

Still, Liverpool do not have a great deal of depth in that position and may be unwise to allow a player of Sakho’s calibre and experience to leave Anfield, with the club needing all the help they can get to climb back into the top four this season. “But Rodgers opted to put his faith in Lovren and he was rewarded with a very solid display at Stoke”.

But the manager said he was not about to abandon his principles, explaining: “I have an inherent belief in terms of that, but I’m not dogmatic in my approach”.

“But the core principles and ideas are fundamentally the same, as is how I work, and that doesn’t change”.