Shawcross rebuffs Liverpool offer

Stoke City defender Ryan Shawcross has laughed off reports that he will be leaving the club this summer. Liverpool had expressed an interest in the England international centre back.

"I suppose if you are linked with clubs it shows you are doing well but I am a Stoke player, I have signed a contract here and I am happy here," Shawcross told the Sentinel.

"The chairman has said the club aren't going to sell me. I don't want to leave and I am looking forward to the new season. Any young player in the Premier League is going to have speculation written about him, but it doesn't bother me."