Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers insists he is in charge of the Anfield club’s transfer policy.

Questions had been raised after the Merseysiders’ US-based owners, Fenway Sports Group (FSG), made changes to the regular English system, where a manager has total control.

They had wanted Rodgers to operate as a coach under the kind of director of football set-up common to many European clubs but instead settled for a committee arrangement.

Now the panel features Rodgers, head of recruitment Dave Fallows and chief scout Barry Hunter as well as analysis chief Michael Edwards.

But Rodgers was adamant on Thursday he makes the final choice, subject to the financial backing of FSG. That was evident in pre-season when the Americans refused to sign Fulham’s Clint Dempsey as they believed he was over-priced for a then 29-year-old. Dempsey subsequently joined Premier League rivals Tottenham Hotspur.

“There is absolutely no way a player will come in here if I don’t want him,” Rodgers told the Liverpool Echo.

“I will always be the first person it comes to. That’s not being arrogant, that’s how we operate here and how it works in this country.

“Abroad it works differently where you have a coach and the club will bring in the players. The coach then works with the players he’s given.”