Damien Comolli has been sacked

According to The Times, The Telegragh and The Mirror on twitter. Comolli has seen his p45.

Liverpool sack Director of Football Damien Comolli as owners react to failed transfer policy and desperate run of results

Liverpool have sacked Director of Football Damien Comolli after the club's owners, Fenway Sports Group, reviewed the club's failure in the transfer market that saw high profile and expensive acquisitions such as Andy Carroll contribute to a chastening season in the Premier League for Kenny Dalglish's side.

Comolli was appointed to the position of Director of Football Strategy at Anfield in November 2010, and given a remit to oversee the recruitment of players to the club.

His first major impact was to play a role in the January signings of Luis Suarez and Andy Carroll, for a British transfer record fee of £35m.

He became Director of Football in March 2011, effectively taking on many aspects of a chief executive's role, though focused solely on the business of playing side of the club.

He was pivotal in the signings of Jordan Henderson, Charlie Adam, Stewart Downing, Jose Enrique, Sebastian Coates and Craig Bellamy, though in all instances manager Kenny Dalglish had the final say in the deals.

The mixed success of those players, most notably Carroll but also Henderson, Adam and to a lesser extend Downing, appears to have cost him his job.

It is an extraordinary turn of events that sees a high profile member of the administration relieved of his job days before an FA Cup semi-final, against Everton rather than at the end of the season.
However an awful run of results that has left Liverpool closer to the relegation places than the top of the table in terms of points has seen the American owners act decisively.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/liverpool/9199540/Liverpool-sack-Director-of-Football-Damien-Comolli-as-owners-react-to-failed-transfer-policy-and-desperate-run-of-results.html

Anyone seen this yet ?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/liverpool/9199540/Liverpool-sack-Director-of-Football-Damien-Comolli-as-owners-react-to-failed-transfer-policy-and-desperate-run-of-results.html

 

There'll be dancing in the street.

Looks true everyone is posting it on twitter

Comolli was appointed to the position of Director of Football Strategy at Anfield in November 2010, and given a remit to oversee the recruitment of players to the club.
 

His first major impact was to play a role in the January signings of Luis Suarez and Andy Carroll, for a British transfer record fee of £35m.
 

He became Director of Football in March 2011, effectively taking on many aspects of a chief executive's role, though focused solely on the business of playing side of the club.
 

He was pivotal in the signings of Jordan Henderson, Charlie Adam, Stewart Downing, Jose Enrique, Sebastian Coates and Craig Bellamy, though in all instances manager Kenny Dalglish had the final say in the deals.
 

The mixed success of those players, most notably Carroll but also Henderson, Adam and to a lesser extend Downing, appears to have cost him his job.
 

It is an extraordinary turn of events that sees a high profile member of the administration relieved of his job days before an FA Cup semi-final, against Everton rather than at the end of the season.
 
However an awful run of results that has left Liverpool closer to the relegation places than the top of the table in terms of points has seen the American owners act decisively.

telegraph

Radio City 96.7 ‏ @RadioCity967 
#LFC confirm that Damien Comolli has left the club by mutual consent. Tom Werner says the club needs to move forward. More at 11

On ssn obviously dalglish wants full control brilliant

If this is true, to be honest Im glad as never really got my head around his role at the club and always thought his previous was a bit questionable.

This does not bode well for Kenny. He had final say on all the signings based on Comolli's recommendations.

Fenway Sports Group and Liverpool FC confirmed today that Director of Football Damien Comolli had left the Club by mutual consent.

Principal Owner John Henry said: "We are grateful for all of Damien's efforts on behalf of Liverpool and wish him all the best for the future."

Liverpool Chairman Tom Werner added: "The Club needs to move forward and we now have a huge game on Saturday.  It is important that everyone joins us in supporting the manager and gets behind Kenny and the team and focuses on a strong finish to the season."

Damien Comolli commented: "I am grateful to have been given the opportunity to work at Liverpool and am happy to move on from the Club and back to France for family reasons.  I wish the Club all the best for the future."

http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/news/latest-news/damien-comolli-to-leave-lfc 

Probably means a few of the summer signings will leave as well, if the American owners believe that they are the main cause of our poor league form

Clearly Damien Comolli has been the one to lose his job over last years transfers. Now it's Kenny's turn to get it right and he must do better than what we brought in last year.

To be fair to Comolli, he was the one who brought in Suarez - far and away our best signing. But too much wasted money and it has deservedly cost him his job.

Thanks for your efforts Damien.
Would have more faith in Segura or Borrell spotting talent.
If anything Newcastle schooled us on what Moneyball signings should be.
Comolli has to take responsibility for that.
Good luck in the future.

Just got back to the house and seen this on ssn ticker.  Didn't see that coming, but Comolli says he's left to go back to France for family reasons.

Wooooo proper signings here we come!

This does not bode well for Kenny

I think the opposite mate.

Rafa in as DOF anyone? 

Comolli at Spurs:

Dimitar Berbatov - £10.9m from Bayer Leverkusen
Pascal Chambonda - £5.25m from Wigan
Benoit Assou-Ekottu - £3.5m from Lens
Didier Zokora - £8.2m from St Etienne
Ricardo Rocha - £3.3m from Benfica
Dorian Dervitte - undisclosed from Lille
Hossam Ghaly - £3.25m from Feyenoord
Darren Bent - £16.5m from Charlton
Kevin-Prince Boating - £5.4m from Hertha Berlin
Younes Kaboul - £8.2m from Auxerre
Gareth Bale - £10m from Southampton
Adel Taarabt - £2.7m from Lens
Danny Rose - £680,000 from Leeds
Ben Alnwick - £1m from Sunderland

At Liverpool:

Andy Carroll - £35m from Newcastle United   
Luis Suarez - £22.7m from Ajax   
Stewart Downing - £20m from Aston Villa   
Jordan Henderson - £16m from Sunderland   
Charlie Adam - £7.5m from Blackpool   
Sebastien Coates - £7m from Nacional   
Jose Enrique - £6m from Newcastle United   
Joao Carlos Teixeira - £850,000 from Sporting Lisbon   
Danny Ward - £100,000 from Wrexham   
Jordan Ibe singed from Wycombe Wanderers   
Alexander Doni singed from AS Roma   
Craig Bellamy singned on free       

But too much wasted money and it has deservedly cost him his Jon.

Poor Comolli losing his job and his toilet.

Will be interesting how this one plays out....

will they get a direct replacement ?
will Kenny be 'booted upstairs' ?
where does that leave Kenny ?
will summer signing be effected ?

timing is very strange - unless it is to get something different in before the transfer window opens

Comolli gone, that's Stewart Downing's first assist of the season.

I wonder if we will get a new DOF or just do away with the position?

Did not expect that.

Going to be an interesting summer then, or may be not.

And now on the Salford Broadcasting Corporation too

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17687524

Poor Comolli losing his job and his toilet.

Yeah, I noticed that. Predictive text is a bi*ch.

If they are citing mutual consent and Comolli is stating that he's returning to France for family reasons, it could be just that.