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Mahrez advisor dismisses Liverpool transfer rumours as ‘nonsense’

Riyad Mahrez’s advisor says reports that the winger was close to signing a deal with Liverpool are ‘nonsense’.

A transfer was said to have been agreed between Leicester City and Liverpool, with the Reds supposedly paying €55 million for Mahrez and the player set to undergo a medical on Sunday.

However, the advisor told Algerian sports paper Le Buteur that news of the deal was a total fabrication.

“I read some media reports about Riyad making an eventual move to Liverpool,” he said.

“But if you want the truth, we don’t know anything about this.