Brendan Rodgers has backed a move to get Kenny Dalglish back to Liverpool as a club ambassador and says he won’t be intimidated.
The current Reds boss replaced the Anfield legend, who won eight league titles and three European Cups during his first stint at the club as player then manager between 1977 and 1991, when he was axed from his second spell as manager last summer.
Dalglish had returned to Liverpool in summer 2009 when then manager Rafael Benitez offered him academy and ambassadorial roles.
The Scot then stepped up to take charge of the first team following Roy Hodgson’s exit in January 2011, winning the League Cup.
However, the board opted to make a change last summer following a disappointing Premier League campaign, while the Merseysiders lost to Chelsea in the FA Cup final.
Liverpool’s principal owner John W Henry is believed to have held fresh talks with Dalglish about a possible new role at Anfield and Rodgers says he would not have a problem with him coming back.
He told the Liverpool Echo: “This is a wonderful football club. With the likes of Jamie Carragher moving on in the summer, I want to look around and see people with a link to the past.
“We will be looking to do that in a number of areas, whether that be through coaching or ambassadorial roles, but there’s nothing concrete at the moment. The most important thing for me is the club, not Brendan Rodgers.
“If I was only worried about myself, then maybe having people around with great histories would worry me. But it doesn’t one bit. I want to get people back involved in the club that supporters and kids have an identity with. That just can’t be me.
“This club is full of great legends like Alan Kennedy, who works at Anfield on match days, Rushy [Ian Rush], Jan Molby, John Aldridge – all great guys around the place.
“That doesn’t intimidate me, I enjoy speaking with these people. It’s very important that if we are one of the great football families in the world, then you have to have members of that family here.
“I stressed to the owners in our meeting that this is something I want to push forward in the summer.”
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