By the following year Dalglish was a full professional and a regular member of the highly-rated Celtic reserve team that became known as the Quality Street Gang, due to its having a large number of future Scottish internationals, including Danny McGrain, George Connelly, Lou Macari, and David Hay.

From 1983 Dalglish became less prolific as a goalscorer, though he remained a regular player.

After the Heysel Stadium disaster in 1985 and Joe Fagan's subsequent resignation as manager, Dalglish became player-manager of Liverpool.

Dalglish became Director of Football at Blackburn in June 1995.

He lured former Liverpool legend Kenny Dalglish as manager and a number of player purchases followed, helping the club to gain promotion back into the first division just before it became the FA Premier League at the end of the 1991 – 1992 season.

* August 2006: Former Sky Sports presenter Kelly Dalglish became the first female sports presenter on Talksport, hosting Monday's edition of Kick-Off alongside Gabriele Marcotti and Jason Cundy

He was never again an automatic choice in midfield under Dalglish as Whelan & McMahon became the first choice partnership.

Redknapp was the last player to be signed by manager Kenny Dalglish before his surprising resignation on 22 February 1991 and later became the youngest Liverpool player to appear in European competition, at 18 years 120 days when making his Liverpool debut against Auxerre in the UEFA Cup on 23 October 1991, by which time Liverpool were being managed by Graeme Souness.

Despite playing alongside Dalglish as a stand-in for Rush, Walsh had been signed for the Reds as a possible eventual long-term successor to Dalglish, who was now 33 and became player-manager after Fagan's retirement at the end of the 1984 – 85 season.

Nicol became a first-team regular for many subsequent seasons, winning the League championship and FA Cup " double " in 1986 under the guidance of Kenny Dalglish, pipping Everton to the title by just two points and then beating them 3 – 1 in the first ever all Merseyside FA Cup final.

After becoming player-manager on the retirement of Joe Fagan in the 1985 close season, Dalglish selected himself for just 21 First Division games in 1985 – 86 as Liverpool won the double, but he started the FA Cup final win over Everton.

Fagan resigned after the disaster and Kenny Dalglish was appointed as player-manager.

Rush's former strike partner Kenny Dalglish ( who had been appointed player-manager in 1985 ) was still registered as a player but by then he was in his 37th year and rarely played in the first team, retiring completely in 1990.

In 1985 – 86, new player-manager Kenny Dalglish put faith in Mølby, installing him as a regular in the first team.

Rush had departed to Juventus of Italy, while player-manager Kenny Dalglish had decided only to make occasional first-team appearances from then on.

He worked as a consultant and advisor to Kenny Dalglish for two years from his appointment as player-manager in June 1985, before being appointed as a director.

He signed for Kenny Dalglish's Liverpool on 27 January 1987 for £ 750, 000 and cut his teeth with the club as a partner for Rush ( filling a position previously occupied by player-manager Kenny Dalglish and fellow striker Paul Walsh ).

He was gradually brought into the first team over the next 18 months by Joe Fagan, before being given regular games in the left back slot by new player-manager Kenny Dalglish as a replacement for Alan Kennedy in the 1985 – 86 season.

Fagan retired after two seasons to be succeeded by striker Kenny Dalglish ( who was appointed player-manager ), and Evans was now coaching under his fourth manager.

Hooper received a degree in English Literature at Swansea University before he was signed by newly appointed Liverpool player-manager Kenny Dalglish in 1985.

In 2009 FourFourTwo named Dalglish as the greatest striker in post-war British football, and in 2006 he topped a Liverpool fans ' poll of " 100 Players Who Shook the Kop ".

In 1977, Liverpool manager Bob Paisley paid a British transfer record of £ 440, 000 to bring Dalglish to Liverpool.

Despite winning the League Cup, Liverpool could only finish 8th in the Premier League, and Dalglish was dismissed in May 2012.

In 1966 Dalglish had unsuccessful trials at West Ham and Liverpool.

On 10 August 1977, after making 320 appearances and scoring 167 goals for Celtic, Dalglish was signed by Liverpool manager Bob Paisley for a British transfer fee record of £ 440, 000.

Dalglish was signed to replace Kevin Keegan, and Liverpool supporters were initially sceptical that he could perform this task.

By the end of his first season with Liverpool, Dalglish had played 62 times and scored 31 goals, including the winning goal in the 1978 European Cup Final final at Wembley against Bruges.

Dalglish was voted PFA Player of the Year for the 1982 – 83 season, during which he scored 18 league goals as Liverpool retained their title.

With the sale of Ian Rush to Juventus in 1987, Dalglish formed a new striker partnership of new signings John Aldridge and Peter Beardsley for the 1987 – 88 season, and he played only twice in a league campaign which saw Liverpool gain their 17th title.

Liverpool achieved this by winning the League Championship by two points over Everton ( Dalglish himself scored the winner in a 1 – 0 victory over Chelsea at Stamford Bridge to secure the title on the final day of the season ), and the FA Cup by beating Everton in the final.

The new-look Liverpool side shaped by Dalglish topped the league for almost the entire season, and had a run of 37 matches unbeaten in all competitions ( including 29 in the league ; 22 wins and 7 draws ) from the beginning of the season to 21 February 1988, when they lost to Everton in the league.

Dalglish guided Liverpool to victory over Everton in the second all-Merseyside FA Cup final in 1989, winning the match 3 – 2 after extra time, but was deprived of a second Double in the final game of the season, when Arsenal secured a last-minute goal to steal the title from Liverpool.

In the 1989 – 90 season Liverpool won their third league title under Dalglish.

Dalglish resigned as manager of Liverpool ( on health grounds ) on 22 February 1991, two days after a 4 – 4 draw with rivals Everton in an FA Cup fifth round tie at Goodison Park, in which Liverpool surrendered the lead four times.

Dalglish was the manager of Liverpool at the time of the Hillsborough disaster on 15 April 1989.

During the Hillsborough Memorial Service on 15 April 2011, Liverpool MP Steve Rotherham announced he would submit an Early Day Motion to have Dalglish knighted, " not only for his outstanding playing and managerial career, but also the charity work he has done with his wife, Marina, for breast cancer support and what he did after Hillsborough.

Dalglish managing Liverpool against Bolton Wanderers F. C.

In April 2009 Liverpool manager Rafael Benítez invited Dalglish to take up a role at the club's youth academy.

Since Dalglish's appointment as player manager in the 1985 close season, Rush had often found himself partnered with Paul Walsh in the Liverpool first team as Dalglish selected himself as a player less frequently.

On 29 May 1985, just hours before the Heysel Stadium disaster, Fagan announced he would retire, and was succeeded by leading Scottish and Liverpool forward Kenny Dalglish.

In 1985, he was sold to Sheffield United but couldn't settle, so he quit playing at the comparatively early age of 31 and was recruited by new Liverpool boss Kenny Dalglish as a coach.

Kennedy played much of the trophy-free season which followed in 1985 but was sold to his home town club Sunderland during September 1985 by manager Kenny Dalglish as young Irish full back Jim Beglin emerged to claim the left back role.

Liverpool's trophyless season, culminating in the disaster at Heysel, in 1985 was followed by a much more successful season for Whelan and Liverpool, under the new management of Kenny Dalglish.

McMahon agreed to join Liverpool on the 12 September 1985 for £ 350, 000 thus becoming the first signing to be made by new manager Kenny Dalglish, and filling the void left by Graeme Souness over a year earlier.