Wants TV talks: Liverpool director Ian Ayre

'I think it is unfortunate it has snowballed into some ridiculous tirade of media suggesting we were trying to run off and damage the league.

'We are Liverpool Football Club and clearly that is not our game but it is something I would like to see debated.

'The whole media rights landscape is very important as it represents about 95 per cent of the revenue we get from the league.

'I think it needs to be addressed because I don't think the balance is right but what it turned into was a torrent of "Liverpool are going to break away and damage the league" and quite clearly I wasn't suggesting that.'

Ayre also expanded on where the club stand on the thorny issue of on-going plans for the stadium, whether it be a new build in Stanley Park or a revamp of Anfield.

'We are following two parallel processes,' he told LFC TV. 'On the refurbishment of Anfield we have a design and in order to incorporate that it involves the acquisition of a lot of housing around the Main Stand area.

'In order to understand whether that is achievable there are a lot of discussions to have and we are working our way through a process.

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