Liverpool players read about Rodgers’ sacking on club website

Nothing like the personal touch.

And Fenway Sports Group's approach to sacking Brendan Rodgers was nothing like the personal touch. Liverpool's erstwhile manager got a call from Mike Gordon, the president of FSG, when he returned to the club's training base at Melwood after the 1-1 draw with Everton. The decision to sack Rodgers had been taken last week and the Antrim native's native fate was sealed, regardless of the result at Goodison Park. Yet they sacked him over the phone.

There was no such courtesy for the players, with the Daily Mail reporting that most did not learn of Rodgers' sacking until the club published a statement on their website.

On the bus back to Melwood, the news will have come as a shock to most of the players - with a huge number of them signed by Rodgers during his three-and-half years in charge.

Rodgers bought 23 players at a cost of nearly £300million. Last summer he spent £80m on Christian Benteke, Roberto Firmino, Nathanial Clyne and Joe Gomez - now that expensive quartet and the rest of the Liverpool squad must prove their worth to a new manager.