The former Scotland striker’s second reign as a Liverpool manager has not been an impressive one as the Reds finished 8th in the Premier League. But the fact that the club won Carling Cup and reached the final of FA Cup,  where they were beaten by Chelsea,  was seen as a satisfactory performance by the fans and many believed he would remain as a Anfield boss.

Two days ago he had a showdown talks with owners with owners John W Henry and Tom Werner.

The 61 year Old’s first managerial stay was a very fruitful one as he helped Liverpool win League titles in 1985–86, 1987–88, 1989–90 as well as FA Cup in1985–86, 1988–89.

Roberto Martinez of Wigan Athletic, Paul Lambert of Norwich City and Brendon Rogers of Swansea has been speculated as possible candidates while sources also say there could be return for former boss Rafael Benitez.

In the last few minutes the official statement form Liverpool Football Club has been released

John Henry was in full praise of the club’s former boss saying, "Kenny will always be more than a championship winning manager, more than a championship winning star player. He is in many ways the heart and soul of the club. He personifies everything that is good about Liverpool Football Club. He has always put the Club and its supporters first. Kenny will always be a part of the family at Anfield.

"Kenny came into the Club as Manager at our request at a time when Liverpool Football Club really needed him. He didn’t ask to be Manager; he was asked to assume the role. He did so because he knew the Club needed him. He did more than anyone else to stabilize Liverpool over the past year-and-a-half and to get us once again looking forward. We owe him a great debt of gratitude, chairman Tom Werner said.

Dalglish statement after he parted company with Liverpool:

"It has been an honour and a privilege to have had the chance to come back to Liverpool Football Club as Manager. I greatly appreciate the work that Steve, Kevin, the players and all of the staff put in during my time and feel proud that we delivered the Club’s first trophy in six years winning the Carling Cup and came close to a second trophy in the FA Cup Final. Of course I am disappointed with results in the league, but I would not have swapped the Carling Cup win for anything as I know how much it meant to our fans and the Club to be back winning trophies.

"Whilst I am obviously disappointed to be leaving the football club, I can say that the matter has been handled by the owners and all concerned in an honourable, respectful and dignified way and reflects on the quality of the people involved and their continued desire to move the football club forward in the same way as when they arrived here.

Source Liverpool FC

The squad includes suspended Wayne Rooney and his Man United compatriot Rio Ferdinand has been left out. There is surprise call ups for John Ruddy and ALex Oxlaide Chamberlain.

Goalkeepers: Joe Hart, Scott Carson, Robert Green, John Ruddy

Defenders: John Terry, Joleon Lescott, Gary Cahill, Ashley Cole, Glen Johnson, Phil Jones and Leighton Baines.

Midfielders: Scott Parker, Frank Lampard, Gareth Barry, Steven Gerrard, Theo Walcott, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Stewart Downing, Ashley Young, James Milner

Forwards: Wayne Rooney, Danny Welbeck, Jermaine Defoe, Andy Carroll

Standby players include Jack Butland (gk), Adam Johnson, Daniel Sturridge, Phil Jagielka and Jordan Henderson.

The Dutchman joined Malaga from SV Hamburg last summer and scored 5 goals in his 35 appearance for the Spanish Club. Malaga finished fourth, the last Uefa Champions League Spot for the Spanish clubs.

His goal scoring prowess hit the peak when he was at Manchester United where he scored 150 goals in 219 appearance helping his team win Premier League title in 2003 and FA Cup in 2004.

The 35 year old 6ft 2 inch striker also spent three and a half season at Spanish Giants Real Madrid winning two La Liga titles and scoring 46 goals in 68 appearances.

"Yesterday was my final game as a professional footballer. I wanted to play in the Champions League, but it is the moment to leave. I have arrived at my physical limit and I can’t play at the maximum level. I couldn’t have had a better send-off than this” he said.

He also has 35 international goals to his name winning 70 international caps with Oranje.

"I feel happy that I am the one taking this decision. I would like to thank Malaga, the technical and medical staff for an unforgettable year. I am proud to have won collective and individual titles, but my greatest satisfaction was to be able to work day after day, year after year.”

Van Nistelrooy started his professional career at FC Den Bosch before playing for SC Heerenveen and for PSV Eindhoven. He was top goal scorers in three european league. Dutch Eredivisie with PSV, English Premier League and La Liga.

He spent one and half season with SV Hamburg netting 12 times for the German Club.

R. van Persie  

W. Rooney

S. Agüero  

E. Adebayor 

C. Dempsey  

Y. Aiyegbeni  

D. Ba  

G. Holt

E. Dzeko

P. Cissé

M. Balotelli

D. Graham  

S. Fletcher 

J. Defoe

R. van der Vaart

Will the domination of English League shift from Red half of Manchester to the blue half? Or will Sir Alex Ferguson’s side clinch their 20 th title. We will have to wait and see the cracking 2 hours of football today. It has been 44 years since Manchester City last won English League Title. Since then their fans have seen more downs than ups until Sheikh Mansour injected millions of dollars to the club. They were relegated in 1974, 1983 and 1987. The were demoted again in 1996. Two years after that, they were relegated to Division Two – becoming the first former winners of a European trophy to be relegated to the third tier of their domestic league. last season’s FA Cup winners have a massive opportunity to write their names in the history of English Football today. All they have to do is get three points against QPR (17th place) at home. But QPR have problems of their own. They have relegation with Bolton Wanderers (18th place) and their manager Mark Hughes will want to get a point at least at his former club. Failing to do so will save Bolton if they win away at Stoke City. QPR has has 37 points, two more than Owen Coyle’s side and also have a superior goal difference.

Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson has been playing his mind games all this week – motivating Mark Hughes and also saying “as long as humans are humans, any stupid things can happen” this referring to the Manchester City – QPR class at the Eastland’s. United have equal points as that of City – 86 but lesser goal difference. United travel to Sunderland expecting QPR to do them a favour. A win for Man Utd will give them the title if City lose points against the London Club.

Battle for Champions League spot:

Arsenal sit third with 67 points and will travel to West Brom, Tottenham one point behind them host Fulham while Newcastle will play at Everton and they have 65 points sitting in 5th. Finishing 4th does not guarantee a UCL berth because if Chelsea, whose 4th place finish chances are over, win the final at Bayern Munich, they will clinch the fourth champions league spot. This means Arsenal need to win at West Brom to finish third while Spurs should pray for slip ups against their north london rivals and win their match against Fulham. Newcastle want both the sides above them to lose points and grab all three point against in-form Everton.

So who will lift the trophy? Will it be Belgian Vincent COmpany or the Frenchman Patrice Evra. Don’t miss the action folks !! All the best

The shortlisted players are Robin Van Persie, Wayne Rooney,
David Silva, Sergio Aguero, Joe Hart and Scott Parker.

Robin van Persie of Arsenal looks clear favorite having scored 44 league goals in his last 49 games for the club.

Wayne Rooney was the winner of last year’s PFA Player Of The Year while his England team mate Scott parker won Player of the Year Football Writers’ Association.

Shortlisted players for Young Player of the Year award has also been announced. This list includes Sergio Agüero, Gareth Bale, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Daniel Sturridge,  Kyle Walker, Danny Welbeck

Reading now has 85 points from 43 games while Southampton sit second with 82. West ham are third with 76 points from 42 matches and the Hammers and close the gap on Saints with a home win over 7th placed Brighton.

Jason Roberts headed in Jimmy Kebe cross on 19th minute to give Royals the lead. The score remained one nil to Reading at half time but three minutes into the second half Billy Sharp’s chest down was meet by a Rickie Lambert shot which took a deflection off Kaspars Gorkss to give Southampton the equalizer. Lambert’s 27th goal of the season gave much hope to the Saints fan. Adam Le Fondre then gave the visitors the lead when he lashed a ball from Jimmy Kebe into top right corner of the goal. Adam Le Fondre  sealed the deal from a tight angle in the 2nd minute of stoppage time.

The win gives Reading a huge boost as they registered 5 straight wins to march on to the title. With three more games to go it is now Reading to lose the lead in the Championship. They will play home games against Nottingham Forest and Crystal Palace before travelling to Birmingham city on the final day of the season. Southampton will play their next two games away at Peterborough and Middlebrough and wrap up their campaign with home fixture against Coventry.

Granada 2 – 2 Athletic Bilbao

(Romero, Geijo for Granada, Llorente , Laskurain for Athletic Bilbao)

Sporting Gijon 3 – 2 Levante

(Trejo, Lora , Sangoy for Sporting Gijon, Kone and Valdo for Levante )

Valencia 4 – 1 Rayo Vallecano

(Jonas 2 , Alba , Hernandez for Valencia, Costa for Rayo Vallecano )

Atletico Madrid 1 – 4 Real Madrid

(R. Falcao for Atletico Madrid , Ronaldo 3 , Callejon for Real Madrid )

Spanish La Liga Table

AZ Alkmaar 2 – 2 FC Twente Enschede

(Altidore 2 for AZ, L.d. Jong, Bajrami for Twente)

RKC Waalwijk 2 – 1 PSV Eindhoven

(Duits and Schet for RKC , J.V.o. Hesselink for PSV )

Roda Kerkrade 0 – 0 Feyenoord Rotterdam

SC Heerenveen 0 – 5 Ajax Amsterdam

(Jansen Aissati and Siem De Jong 3)

Dutch Eredivisie Table

Bayer Leverkusen 3 – 1 Kaiserslautern

(S. Kiessling, Rolfes  and Rolfes for Bayer, Derstroff for Kaiserslautern )

Borussia Dortmund 1 – 0 Bayern Munich

(Lewandowski)

Hannover 2 – 0 Wolfsburg

(Diouf, D.K. Ya)

Hoffenheim 4– 0 Hamburger SV

(Vestergaard, Salihovic, Johnson, Schipplock)

Nurnberg 4 – 1 Schalke

(Balitsch, Simons, Didavi 2 for Nurnberg, Papadopoulos for Schalke  )

German Bundesliga Table