This whole saga needs to be concluded for my sanity tbh! Its strange that Barrett has changed his stance in such a big way over the course of an evening (maybe he has spoken to Kenny?). Regardless of the lack of public comms from FSG, it appears there still a tight ship...no one really knows what is going on. I have a few theories 1. There delaying any announcement until Kenny goes on holiday so he can escape the media attention. 2. Kenny has knocked back there offer to step aside, and they will be forced to do it the hard way if they want to get rid (Kenny knows this and is using that to his advantage - as he is entitled to do), this will become quite toxic imo. We do not need another power struggle at LFC, if FSG refuse to back him significantly then we have even bigger issues and our already weak squad will fall further behind over the coming months. 3. Kenny has agreed to change roles and has given him there blessing to approach a number of managerial targets (not very likely). 4. Kenny was prepared to step aside but found out they wanted to hire Martinez / Rodgers <insert unproven manager here>, knows he could do a better job and is playing hard ball (also not very likely) I agree some of the above are a bit out there, I think #2 is the most likely (as per Wayne and a few other posters) with an outside chance of #1.