Brendan Rodgers admits he couldn't turn down Liverpool when they came knocking.

Rodgers leaves Swansea City after just a season in the Premier League.

He told talkSPORT: "I couldn't. It was such an emotional, difficult decision in terms of leaving Swansea. I was in no rush to leave, I had a brilliant relationship with the chairman - Huw Jenkins - who is a wonderful man and strategically he has positioned the club brilliantly. He and I had a good relationship.

"As a city, they were magnificent for me; they looked after me and my family. So I was in absolutely no rush to leave there.

"But a club like Liverpool, with the history and a real institution which I have felt in the first two or three weeks of how big a club it is, they don't come calling very often. When you get that opportunity to go to a club like Liverpool and hopefully help it improve, it is very difficult to turn down. In my professional career and challenge, it was a great step for me."