Kenny Dalglish, future unclear
LIVERPOOL, England ● Rumours are flying about the future of Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish after he was summoned to come to the United States to have a chat with the club owners.
The Scot flew back to Britain on Tuesday after meeting principal owner John Henry and chairman Tom Werner.
Speculation reached fever pitch on internet and social networking sites around late Tuesday morning and many placed a bet on the odds of Dalglish getting sacked or not. If you are not into gambling, but like to have a bit of fun, you should check out PartyBingo.com.
Without a public show of support from FSG Dalglish’s position will remain a subject for debate even though just over a month ago Werner stated they had “great confidence in Kenny and he enjoys our full support”.
Since then results have not improved as Liverpool won just two league matches out of five and lost the FA Cup final to Chelsea.
But there has perhaps been too much being read into his trip to America, fed no doubt by FSG’s restructuring at the club has already led to the departure of director of football Damien Comolli, head of sports science Peter Brukner and head of communications Ian Cotton in the last month.
Dalglish, along with coach Steve Clarke, flew out after Sunday’s defeat to Swansea to present their view of what has been a disappointing season.
It was always designed to be part of the review process, which Dalglish had admitted some weeks before required him to provide a detailed report of his assessment of the last 10 months and his thoughts on plans going forward.
After a 14th loss of the league campaign Liverpool’s eighth-place finish was their worst for 18 years and a points tally of 52 their lowest since 1953/54.
It will have left Dalglish and Clarke to answer some testing questions from Henry and Werner about what progress was being made with their investment, having spent over £200million to buy the club in October 2010 and then heavily backed their manager in subsequent transfer windows.