Liverpool CANCEL crunch meeting with Sterling after star's agent insists he will not sign a new deal - even for £900,000-a-week

Liverpool are cancelling a meeting with Raheem Sterling's advisors, scheduled for Friday, following his agent's extraordinary outburst.

In the London Evening Standard, Aidy Ward said Sterling would not sign a new contract even if Liverpool offered '£700, £800 or £900,000 per week', so on that basis Liverpool have decided there is no point holding talks.

Ward has pushed an aggressive agenda all week, with it being made clear from Monday night that the meeting which was arranged with Liverpool officials would end with him telling the club that Sterling wants to leave.

Raheem Sterling was pictured driving away from Liverpool's Melwood training ground on Thursday

Sterling, pictured in action against Crystal Palace, has had his meeting with Liverpool cancelled by the club

Aidy Ward (left) is the man at the middle of the current transfer saga between Sterling and Liverpool

Sterling was heckled at Liverpool's end of season awards and Ward (left) believes he will leave the club

THE RISE OF STERLING'S WAGES

£400 per week - What Sterling was believed to earn during his spell at QPR's youth team

£2,000 per week - What Sterling earned when he signed his first professional contract at Liverpoool

£35,000 per week - What SterlingEARNS NOW on his current Liverpool contract which has two years to run

£100,000 per week - What Liverpool reportedly offered Sterling to stay at the club, but the midfielder turned down 

Liverpool have offered Sterling a deal worth around £100,000 a week - which he rejected in February - and talks between the parties have been put on hold until the end of the campaign, at the behest of the England international and Ward.

Sterling and Ward were set to see manager Brendan Rodgers and Chief Executive Ian Ayre in Liverpool on Friday at the club's Melwood training ground.

But Liverpool have decided there is no longer any point holding talks, given that Ward has made his stance perfectly clear.

Ward expects Manchester City or Chelsea to be Sterling's most likely next destination, ruling out a move to Real Madrid, Barcelona or Bayern Munich.

Ward also launched a stinging attack on ex-pros and pundits who have criticised Sterling, labelling Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher a 'knob'.

Sterling's protracted contract negotiations have dogged the club in recent months and he now looks set to leave this summer.

Sterling (centre, signing his first professional contract) has told Rodgers (right) that he will not sign a new deal

Ward told the Evening Standard: 'I don't care about the PR of the club and the club situation. I don't care.

'He is definitely not signing. He's not signing for £700, £800, £900,000 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.'

Graeme Souness, Mark Lawrenson, Ian Wright and Jason Roberts are among the former pros who have waded into the debate, with opinion divided over whether Sterling is receiving the right advice over his career choices.

'For a 20-year-old kid to be taking on Liverpool Football Club over a contract - to the pit of my stomach that just winds me up, it angers me,' Carragher said on Sky Sports' Monday Night Football this week.

Sterling, seen packing up his car at Melwood on Wednesday, has been criticised for not signing a new deal

Sterling drives away from Anfield and is determined to leave Liverpool, according to his agent

'The lad is from London and he obviously wants to go back home. It might not be about money. It may be about trophies or playing in the Champions League.'

Ward hit back at the Kop hero: 'Carragher is a knob. 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.'

He added: '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.' 

Sterling, who was heckled at Liverpool's end of season awards on Tuesday night, has two years remaining on his contract and the Reds have made it clear they do not want to sell him in the coming window. 

Reports revealed on Thursday that Liverpool's bitter rivals Manchester United had made a sensational enquiry about signing Sterling.

Louis van Gaal's Manchester United were told by Liverpool that they have no interest in selling Sterling

Sterling takes a shot at Old Trafford during Liverpool's 3-0 defeat to Man United earlier this season

Rodgers has insisted that Sterling will not be sold this summer but the club's position could now change

No player has moved directly between the clubs since Phil Chisnall moved from Old Trafford to Anfield in 1964, but United have explored the prospect of exploiting Sterling's contract stand-off.

But Liverpool flatly told United they have no interest in doing business for the England international. 

Chelsea, Arsenal and Manchester City have all been plotting moves to varying degrees for Sterling, but United's emergence shows how vulnerable Liverpool have become and it is unlikely to be the last offer they receive.