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Published 11:41 21 May 2015 BST
Updated 16:27 21 May 2015 BST
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“He is definitely not signing," the Standard claim Ward told them.
"He’s not signing for £700, £800, £900 thousand a week. He is not signing.
“My job is to make sure I do the best with them [my clients]. If people say I am bad at my job, or they are badly advised, it does not matter.
“How did this all occur? There is no smoke without fire.
“I don’t care about the PR of the club and the club situation. I don’t care.
“I am not worried. Worried is making a decision not knowing what is going to happen. Every Premier League club will make a bid for him.”
Liverpool have obviously decided that the quotes, which are still running on the Standard's website and appeared in their Thursday evening print edition, are genuine and feel there is no point going into talks if their mind is already made up.
Ward is also alleged to have ripped into Jamie Carragher for criticising Sterling's behaviour.
“Carragher is a knob," he is quoted as saying.
"Everybody knows it. Any of the criticism from current pundits or ex-Liverpool players – none of them things matter to me. It is not relevant.”
And so the saga continues. The worst part is that technically we're still in the Raheem Sterling contract saga stage.
The drawn out transfer saga is still ahead of us.
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