Arne Slot refused to be drawn on Liverpool links to Napoli star Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, insisting "99 out of 100" transfer stories during the January window are baseless. The Reds were named in connection with the Georgia international on Thursday evening, with the Premier League leaders reportedly ready to act if he leaves the Serie A side this month.

With Luis Diaz and Cody Gakpo in competition for a place on the left side of the front three and Darwin Nunez and Diogo Jota also capable of operating in the wide position, Liverpool appear well stocked for the role Kvaratskhelia plays for Napoli and Georgia.

While the admiration for Kvaratskhelia is understood to be long-standing at the club, a move for the 23-year-old has been suggested as unlikely by Anfield sources at this stage and Slot was quick to sidestep the question when it was put to him in Friday press conference to preview Saturday's FA Cup visit from Accrington Stanley.

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"When you said yourself 'linked with', I was thinking: 'Which club is he going to say now?' But you mean as a club we are linked with Kvaratskhelia," Slot said.

"What I make of that is that this is January and I think I said it after the West Ham United game [to journalists], please don't disappoint me, please come up with all these players and all these clubs that are in the interest of us.

"Or the ones that don't play a lot for us are going to go somewhere else. That [speculation] is what is happening now.

"And nine out of 10 times or 99 out of 100 times, at the end of the window it's been clear that almost all of these stories weren't true. So what can I comment about it? The rumours keep going for it but no comment from my side."