Kenny Dalglish returns to Anfield as Liverpool legend is officially unveiled as new manager

Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish may have stressed he would be happy to stand aside at the end of the season but suggested the club would have to find a 'better' candidate to replace him.

Director of football strategy Damien Comolli admitted the possibility of the 59-year-old Scot, brought in on Saturday to take charge until the summer after the departure of Roy Hodgson, being made permanent boss had not been ruled out.

Dalglish, who appointed former Chelsea and West Ham No 2 Steve Clarke as the club's new first-team coach, insists he wants to help in any way he can, although his assertion that he will happily give way to a superior contender puts the pressure onit takes us.'

Dalglish wanted the job last summer
after the departure of Rafael Benitez but was overlooked by the previous
regime of owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett, chairman Martin
Broughton, managing director Christian Purslow and commercial director
Ian Ayre.

Only the latter of those remains on
the board in any executive capacity and he defended the way they arrived
at the ill-fated appointment of Hodgson, who struggled for results and
failed to win over the fans who turned against him.

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Ayre did accept, however, the 63-year-old was probably the wrong man for the club.

'In the summer we went through a very
exhaustive process and it is easy to look in hindsight and say it might
have been better