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Brendan Rodgers safe as Liverpool manager after meeting - sources

Brendan Rodgers remains safe as Liverpool's manager following talks with chairman Tom Werner, sources told ESPN FC.

Rodgers met Werner and Mike Gordon, president of the club's American owners Fenway Sports Group, on Tuesday. The discussions, which took place at Liverpool's city centre offices as part of an end-of-season review, were constructive, sources said.

FSG have continued to back Rodgers despite a poor end to the season that culminated in a humiliating 6-1 Premier League defeat at Stoke.

The manager suggested after that game -- Liverpool's heaviest defeat since 1963 -- that "If the owners want me to go, then I go."

However, Rodgers' future was never scheduled to be on the agenda when FSG arranged their annual end-of-season review. And sources said the manager impressed Werner and Gordon with his plans to improve the club's fortunes for next season.

His task will be to ensure significant improvement after Liverpool failed to build on their performance of 2013-14, when they finished as Premier League runners-up. Having started 2014-15 slowly, the Reds were in contention to qualify for the Champions League and win the FA Cup with two months of the campaign to go.

But their form then dipped alarmingly and they ended up missing out on both targets. Rodgers' side finished sixth in the Premier League after taking eight points from their final nine matches, and were knocked out of the FA Cup by Aston Villa in a Wembley semifinal on April 19.