Porto boss ignores Reds’ row

PORTO COACH Jesualdo Ferreira insists he has no interest or knowledge of Liverpool’s current problems and intends to ensure the Portuguese champions’ passage into the last 16.

The fact that Porto can clinch qualification from Group A while extending their unbeaten record this season in domestic and Champions League football has been somewhat lost in the uproar surrounding Rafael Benitez’s war of words with the club’s American owners.

Ferreira, 61, said: “I hear that Liverpool and their manager are having a difficult time. But I know nothing of that. What I do know is that he is a professional and I do not believe it will stop Liverpool playing to their best in their own quest to qualify.