Liverpool part company with assistant manager Sammy Lee – report

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Liverpool have reportedly parted company with assistant manager Sammy Lee.

The Liverpool Echo claim that the 52-year-old has left the backroom staff at Anfield, although the club are declining to comment and there is no known reason for the popular personality’s departure.

The former Merseyside player joined as assistant manager in May 2008 when Rafael Benitez was boss, and retained by both Roy Hodgson and Kenny Dalglish last season.

Lee joined Liverpool in 1975 as an apprentice and made 295 appearances as a midfielder for the club, winning two European trophies in the process.

Graeme Souness hired him as reserve team coach in 1993 when he was in charge at Anfield and he made his way to coaching the first team by the time Gerard Houllier was appointed.

After helping the club secure the treble of FA Cup, League Cup and Uefa Cup in 2001, he left the coaching staff to pursue a full-time coaching role with England.

In 2005, he joined Sam Allardyce at Bolton Wanderers as assistant manager and took charge of the club in 2007, but won only one in 11 games for the club and was sacked by October of the same year.