The silence from Liverpool's owners is deafening for manager Roy Hodgson.
The club's American chiefs failed to respond to an intense 24 hours for Hodgson, where he was reported to have tendered his resignation.
The Independent says the Hodgson rumour mill reached its most intense - and bizarre - in mid-afternoon when it was tweeted that Radio 2 had broken news of the manager's dismissal, leading Richard Burgess, the BBC's head of sports news to respond: "Just for clarification, Radio 2 has not reported that Hodgson has been sacked." First suggestions that Hodgson had been handed his cards surfaced on Twitter within a few hours of Wednesday's defeat.
Though Liverpool's principal owner John W Henry is known to be considering the appointment of a temporary manager, rather than wait until the summer, there are few candidates and it remains unclear whether the obvious one - Kenny Dalglish - is wanted.
The distance of Henry and chairman Tom Werner from Anfield and the absence of a chief executive - Liverpool are yet to recruit one - contributes to the sense of a club in a severe state of drift and a manager condemned to purgatory.
