Liverpool ready to offload Lucas

Lucas Leiva signed for Liverpool from Gremio in 2007

Liverpool will listen to offers for Lucas Leiva, but have not put the midfielder on the transfer list, according to reports.

The 28-year-old Brazil international did not feature in the Reds' squad for their 1-0 opening weekend win at Stoke City and reports this morning suggested the defensive midfielder is surplus to requirements.

Lucas also made just 16 Premier League starts last season and Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers has also brought in England midfielder James Milner following Steven Gerrard's departure to LA Galaxy.

Sky Sports sources are now reporting that Lucas could leave Anfield having signed for the club from Gremio in 2007.

He has made over 250 appearances for the club, scoring five goals, but has fallen behind the likes of Jordan Henderson and Emre Can in the midfield pecking order.

Lucas has 24 caps for Brazil having made his international debut in 2007.

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Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers admits to 'traumatic four years'

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Brendan Rodgers has called the last four years "traumatic", in which family tragedy and personal issues have made life harder at Liverpool.

The quotes from Rodgers come from football writer Michael Calvin's new book Living on the Volcano, in which football managers reveal the stresses and strains of life in the public eye.

Rodgers' is one of the more candid revelations, discussing his split from his wife and personal loss.

“I’ve been through probably the most traumatic four years of my life,” he said.

“I lost my mum. I lost my dad. I split up from the woman I loved for 23 years. I had a court case, two Old Bailey trials over six weeks with my son who was charged with sexual assault, which was an absolute disgrace.

However, Rodgers feels that he has used those issues to become a better manager. 

“Yet professionally, here and at Swansea, these have been the best four years of my life. Something has to come from within. You have to put the professional and personal to each side. It’s about being happy of course, but the owners have paid me to do a job, so I will do the job.

“There’s a story about Jimmy Sirrel at Notts County which has stuck with me since I was a young coach. His wife, Cathy, died late on the Friday night, but he came in on the Saturday.

“That Saturday night he quickly popped into the bar. Someone asked about his wife, and he said, ‘She died last night’. He’d lost the woman of his life, his right hand, but he still came in and did his job. Makes you think, doesn’t it?"

Liverpool won their first Premier League fixture of the season 1-0 at Stoke City on Saturday.

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Balotelli too busy tweeting, says Di Canio

Mario Balotelli: Busy posting on Instagram

Paulo Di Canio says Mario Balotelli spends too much time on social networks and would rather be a celebrity than a footballer.

Former Sunderland manager Di Canio, an Italian compatriot of Balotelli, has been highly critical of the forward whose future at Liverpool looks far from assured.

Balotelli's agent insisted at the end of May that the 24-year-old was staying at Anfield, but the return of Divock Origi and arrivals of Danny Ings and Christian Benteke have sent him down the pecking order.

Serie A pair Sampdoria and Bologna have registered an interest in the striker, but his transfer fee and wages have so far prevented any prospective deal. 

"Talking as a manager, my view on football is you need to understand what it means to play with and for your team-mates," Di Canio told TalkSport.

"You need to show empathy in good moments and bad moments. It doesn’t look like he is doing this.

"Many managers have tried to change him. Mancini was his father in football but even he now doesn’t want him back at Inter.

"Mourinho understood at the beginning. He is a very good reader of players and he saw that you can’t change this guy. Now he is nearly 25, he needs to change himself. He can’t rely on other people to help him.

"The demons are in his brain. He is still young, physically he is strong, he is an incredible natural athlete, but he has never used his big potential.

"Sometimes he thinks football is I can keep the ball, show off in some way, and then my team-mates have to run for me. No. Football is sacrifice. Football is to bond with your team-mates. Not off the field in a bar because you are generous. It is being generous on the pitch.

"He has big potential and I hope in my heart for him that he can turn it around, but I presume it will be very difficult because he spends too much time on social network and it seems he uses football to be a celebrity - not the opposite."

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Gossip: Lucas set for £8m Liverpool exit

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