Brendan Rodgers admits Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho told him to take the Liverpool job.
Rodgers worked for Mourinho during his previous spell at Chelsea.
"Jose told me to take the job and what a great club Liverpool was," Rodgers revealed. "I had spoken to him on it, he encouraged me about the sheer scale of the club. I was talking to him about a choice I maybe had, he knows the size of this.
"It is a friendship (we have). It has been a continual relationship since 2004. We have just kept in contact. I have got on with my life and work and that's it. He's been supportive of me wherever I have been even, in my time here.
"We might be considered a rival but I know that if they didn't win the league he would want us to win it."
