Brendan Rodgers has been sacked after over three years in charge at Liverpool

1 June 2012 Liverpool announce Brendan Rodgers as their man to replace Kenny Dalglish. Rodgers joins from Swansea, and the appointment is immediately endorsed by Jose Mourinho.

18 August 2012 Liverpool's first Premier League game with Rodgers at the helm ends in a disappointing 3-0 away defeat to West Brom. Rodgers hands starts to players including Martin Kelly, Daniel Agger, and Fabio Borini.

2 January 2013 Brendan Rodgers completes the signing of Daniel Sturridge from Chelsea, for £12 million. Sturridge developed into one of the best players of the Rodgers era.

17 February 2013 Rodgers hammers his old team 5-0 at Anfield. It is a sign of how quickly his Liverpool team are improving, and how far he has come. They finish his first season in charge in 7th.

September 2013 At the beginning of the 2013/14 season, Rodgers is named Premier League Manager of the Month after Liverpool won their first three games of the season.

15 December 2013 One of the finest wins of the Rodgers era: a comprehensive 5-0 rout of Tottenham at their place, which eventually saw the north London club sack Andre Villas-Boas.

13 April 2014 Any doubt that Liverpool were true title contenders was ended when they beat Manchester City 3-2 at home, despite having Jordan Henderson sent off late on.

27 April 2014 That slip, that goal, that defeat. Chelsea win 2-0 at Anfield, and Liverpool's title hopes are effectively ended.

5 May 2014 Any lingering hope of winning the league is wiped out when Palace recover from 3-0 down to score three times in nine minutes, to salvage a draw. Suarez cannot stem the tears.

11 July 2014 Weeks later, and Luis Suarez is sold to Barcelona for £75,000,000. In his final season with Liverpool, the striker scored an incredible 31 league goals in only 33 games.

July-August 2014 Liverpool spend heavily in the wake of Suarez's departure. Lallana, Markovic, Lovren, Origi and Balotelli all arrive- among others- for a combined fee of £117m. Few manage to settle in at Liverpool. Rodgers is widely ridiculed for his business after earlier claiming that Tottenham should be in title contention after spending all of the Gareth Bale transfer money.

1 October 2014 Liverpool's Suarez-less season starts badly when they lose 1-0 to Basel in the Champions League, having only narrowly overcome Ludogorets at home two weeks earlier. They later fail to progress from the group stage.

23 November 2014 The pressure begins to mound on Rodgers when they lose 3-1 to Crystal Palace- completing a run of three straight league defeats. It leaves Liverpool well out of the Champions League race by Christmas.

1 April 2015 Sterling's infamous BBC interview begins one of the most protracted transfers in recent memory. The young forward eventually leaves for Manchester City, but his dispute with Liverpool and Rodgers doesn't portray anybody in a positive light. Rodgers is unable to sufficiently replace him.

19 April 2015 Fans are excited at the prospect of a potential FA Cup final- the ultimate send-off for departing club legend Steven Gerrard- but the club inexplicably slump to a torrid 2-1 defeat to Aston Villa.

24 May 2015 Liverpool lose 6-1 away to Stoke, in the final game of the season, and Gerrard's last ever appearance in a Liverpool shirt. "I'll leave if the board thinks that is the right decision," a crestfallen Rodgers offers.

17 August 2015 The new season begins in encouraging fashion. After an unbeaten pre-season, Liverpool win their first two games without conceding a goal. After their 1-0 victory against Bournemouth, they then draw 0-0 with Arsenal.

23 September 2015 Not long after their chastising 3-1 defeat to Manchester United, Liverpool fail to beat Carlisle in 120 minutes of football at Anfield, eventually prevailing 3-2 on penalties. Meanwhile, Jurgen Klopp lets it be known that he is 'open' of a move to England.

1 October 2015 On a dismal night in Liverpool, the home side fail to beat European minnows Sion, drawing 1-1. It leaves the club with two points from their opening two Europa League fixtures.