Sylvain Marveaux, the French left winger that Liverpool have spent months trying to bring to Anfield, has failed a fitness test.
The 25-year-old, who is out of contract at Rennes, has not played since November because of a serious groin injury and a medical at Liverpool revealed it remains enough of a problem to make signing him a risk.
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