• Deal clears way for Rodgers to take charge at Liverpool
• Rodgers wins battle to bring own backroom staff to Anfield
Liverpool have removed the final barrier in the way of appointing Brendan Rodgers as manager after agreeing a compensation package with Swansea City.
Swansea were entitled to around £5m in compensation for Rodgers due to the three-and-a-half year contract their former manager signed in January. The package includes payoffs for several members of the Swansea backroom staff – the clearest sign yet that the new management structure Fenway Sports Group envisaged for Anfield has been compromised to allow Rodgers the control he wants.
Rodgers' insistence on bringing his own team with him to Merseyside may prompt the departure of Steve Clarke from Anfield and also ends Louis van Gaal's prospects of joining Liverpool. The Dutchman was FSG's preferred choice in a sporting director-type role at Anfield but Rodgers, and Wigan's Roberto Martínez, who was also interviewed by John W Henry, Liverpool's principal owner, made it clear that a partnership was unworkable.
Clarke, the assistant manager to Kenny Dalglish, offered his resignation in the wake of Dalglish's sacking but that was rejected. FSG still intend to reshape the coaching structure at Liverpool but not to the same extent as they originally proposed.
Rodgers agreed personal terms on a three-year contract at Liverpool on Wednesday and is expected to bring his assistant Colin Pascoe, conditioning expert Glen Driscoll and chief match analyst Chris Davies with him to Anfield. He may also hijack Swansea's £6.8m deal with Hoffenheim for Gylfi Sigurdsson. Swansea agreed a club record transfer for the Iceland midfielder earlier this week but Sigurdsson has yet to sign a contract. Read More
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