Schalke 04 sporting executive Christian Heidel has rejected claims that Liverpool have started negotiations with midfielder Max Meyer over a summer move.

There had been suggestions in the media that the Germany international, who was also on Reds boss Jurgen Klopp's radar at former club Borussia Dortmund, had been close to finalising a switch to Anfield.

Speculation only intensified when the player himself admitted this week that he has a "50-50 chance" of staying in the Bundesliga at the end of the campaign, but Heidel insists that there has been no contact between Klopp and Schalke.

"I last had contact with Klopp after our Europa League match at Gladbach," he is quoted as saying by ESPN. "Is he close to joining Liverpool? I'd argue that I'd know about anything in that direction. A new contract? You talk about a new deal when both sides are happy."

Meyer, whose current deal at the Veltins-Arena runs out next year, is also supposedly on the transfer wishlist of another Premier League club in Tottenham Hotspur.