RafaTheGaffer

Liverpool have no intention of making a bid for Sevilla's Brazilian right-back Daniel Alves according to the club's joint-chief scout Eduardo Macia.

In an interiew with ABC.es: Noticias de Espa?±a y del mundo, the man chosen to replace Paco Herrera last summer, admitted that whilst the club had been interested in the player last summer, he is not in their plans this time round.

"We've dropped our interest," Macia is quoted as saying. "Will he end up joining us? In football you can never say never but at the moment we're not interested. Instead of him we signed (Jermaine) Pennant. Okay, so he's a winger but Alves plays very high up the pitch. We've also got (Alvaro) Arbeloa who can play in that position."

Macia, who was chosen by Benitez to replace Paco Herrera who last summer left for Espanyol, is credited in the same article as being the man who discovered Valencia's David Silva and that he is in charge of around 70 scouts who handle a database of around 10,000 players. However, recently he was critised in the Liverpool Echo for relying too heavily on Italian agents, which perhaps explains Daniele Padelli's (hopefully) brief stay on Merseyside.

Rooney08

Not quite sure how you came to this conclusion about Padelli though, one bad performance seems to be enough nowadays and he wasn't exactly helped by out defense on that day was he?? He is very highly rated by the Italy under 21 coach and I dare say he might know a bit more about goalies than you or me wouldn't you say?