Brendan Rodgers press conference: Boss speaks Sterling and potential replacements

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Liverpool have arrived in Asia for the pre-season tour of the Far East, and Brendan Rodgers today gave a press-conference to a group of Thai journalists.

As you’d expect, most of the questions were about Raheem Sterling, who looks set to complete a £49m signing to Manchester City once he passes his medical (via BBC Sport).

But the boss swerved them largely, admitting that a move to City is likely, but promising that his only focus was the players currently with him on tour.

Those include a number of academy starlets and new signings Joe Gomez, Adam Bogdan, James Milner and Danny Ings.

Roberto Firmino has not travelled due to his extended period of leave due to the Copa America.

Sadly, Rodgers also swerved questions about new signings – claiming our business would be done behind closed doors.

We play our first game of pre-season against a Thai All-Star XI on Tuesday, with a youthful lineup expected to take the field.

James Pearce of the Liverpool Echo live tweeted the press-conference and selected the most important quotes from our Northern Irish manager.