Brendan Rodgers lives to fight another day

Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers will begin planning for next season after a positive meeting with the club’s owners Fenway Sports Group.

Rodgers met chairman Tom Werner and Mike Gordon, president of FSG and their key man at Anfield, yesterday to review a disappointing campaign in which the Reds boss missed the owners’ primary target of Champions League qualification.

Sources at the club always maintained the meeting, which is an annual review which has been undertaken by FSG, was not to discuss the manager’s job but that did not stop speculation about his immediate future — especially after the 6-1 final-day humiliation at Stoke.