Babel staying put, says Dalglish

Liverpool boss Kenny Dalglish has revealed Ryan Babel will be staying at Anfield for the remainder of the season.

The Reds accepted a seven-million-pound bid from Hoffenheim for the Dutch international last week, but it appears Babel was unable to come to personal terms with the Bundesliga club.

It was mooted that Babel may be used as part of a deal to sign Ajax striker Luis Suarez, but Dalglish was giving little away about Babel’s future, saying only: “He’s staying here.”

It was a typically tight-lipped performance from Dalglish at his pre-match press conference ahead of Liverpool’s clash with Fulham on Wednesday, with the Scot refusing to comment of potential bids for Suarez and Blackpool’s Charlie Adam.

“I’ve said before, when we’ve got some business to discuss, we will discuss,” Dalglish said.

“We’ve said that we will try and adopt the way of Liverpool Football Club, certainly one of our ways is to be respectful to other club, and certainly players at other clubs.”

“The most important thing we have is the ones at our football club, not somebody else’s players.”

Dalglish earned the first win of his second managerial stint at Anfield with a 3-0 away victory over Wolves on Saturday.

The victory brought a sense of relief to Liverpool fans and Dalglish believes the impact of the win spread through his dressing room.

“There were thousands or even millions of Liverpool fans that had huge smiles on their faces on Saturday but, by the way, so did the players,” Dalglish said.

“We stick as one, we need their help and we’ve got to help them at times.”

“Together we will move forward, as individuals we will get nowhere. We will stick together as a unit and stick together as a football club and see what happens.”

“Every game is different, just because we’ve won one it doesn’t mean we will get carried away. We have seen what it takes to win a game and now we need to repeat that.”

Dalglish denied there have been wholesale changes since he took over from sacked predecessor Roy Hodgson, and said Fernando Torres’ upturn in form is all down to his own attitude.

“We have done training the way we think it should be done. There has never been any doubt about many the players’ ability here,” Dalglish said.

“I think Fernando Torres comes in the same bracket as many others, they are doing better than they were before and they are more like themselves than they were before which is a great credit to them.”