Confirmed: Liverpool Manager Kenny Dalglish Axed

As we reported yesterday, Liverpool have parted ways with manager Kenny Dalglish.

Updated: Liverpool have now released a statement on their website confirming that they have sacked Kenny Dalglish. As we reported yesterday, Liverpool have parted ways with manager Kenny Dalglish. He leaves the club after showdown talks earlier in the week with US owners John W Henry and Tom Werner at their stateside base in Boston Dalglish ends his 16 month spell in charge at Anfield with a Carling Cup trophy and a runners up FA Cup medal but an extremely disappointing league campaign saw the Reds finish eighth, behind bitter rivals Everton and way outside the Champions League places. BBC news confirmed the story saying he had paid the price for Liverpool's poor run in the league. The 61-year-old Kop legend has now arrived back in Merseyside and has postponed an overseas holiday he was to take today but has yet to comment on the axing. Matt Lawton, Chief Football Correspondent of the Daily Mail broke the news on Twitter;

It is my understanding that Kenny Dalglish will no longer be Liverpool manager by close of play tonight
Henry Winter € of The Daily Telegraph also said;
Kenny Dalglish is about to leave #lfc.
According to BBC journalist Dan Roan, an official statement from Liverpool is expected by the end of the day. He tweeted moments ago;
Expect Liverpool to make a statement by end of the day. Which way it will go still unclear, but Dalglish's future will become clearer
And then followed up with;
If FSG are about to part company with Dalglish it's a massive call by absent owners

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