Royals boss Nigel Adkins said Reading have further niggles, but no other players are expected to be ruled out.Every player knows that the transfer window opens at the end of the season and that all clubs do business, moving people around. Here will be no exception, he said.Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers was sacked by Reading in 2009 after just six months in charge, but Adkins doubts there will be any special desire to demonstrate to his former employers that they made a mistake.Forward Raheem Sterling will be absent again for Liverpool as the club continue to manage the teenager's thigh injury.Brendan doesn't have anything to prove to us. He's a fantastic manager, he said.Winger Stewart Downing, who played in last weekend's goalless draw with West Ham despite illness, is now fully recovered.He was here, was very successful at Swansea and is doing a fantastic job at Liverpool. He's a footballing man who improves his players.Star striker Luis Suarez has not scored for three games but, after drawing another blank against West Ham last weekend, boss Brendan Rodgers insists his star man is not feeling the effects of a long campaign, during which at times he has carried the side single-handedly.He has teams that are really exciting to watch, so I don't believe he has anything to prove to anybody.From time to time he will have games like that but it just shows you the level he has reached this year, where he can still have a good game but because he doesn't score he is regarded as not being at as high a level.Adkins hinted that his players have the six matches left in Reading's season to prove they should remain in his plans for next season.
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