Dudek ready to quit Liverpool

Jerzy Dudek will quit Liverpool this summer after claiming he is fed up of being treated like "a slave".

The club's 2005 Champions League hero has played only a handful of games since rival goalkeeper Jose Reina arrived at Anfield two summers ago and is out of contract at the end of the season.

The 34-year-old Poland international, a target for Wolfsburg and former club Feyenoord, said: "I have to finally tell Rafa I'm leaving because maybe he's not aware of it.

"I will remember Liverpool fondly as a success but not the situation I've found myself in.  When a player knows he is a slave, he'll never give his employer his heart."

Dudek has warned his fellow goalkeepers off signing for Liverpool, saying manager Rafael Benitez will treat them in exactly the same way.

"To get a good keeper, they'd have to spend £3 million to £4 million and then Rafa would have to tell that keeper: 'You're going to sit on the bench'.

"But no respected keeper would come under those terms and that's why they prefer to keep me," he told reporters.  PA