Swansea City first team coach Alan Curtis is backing departing manager Brendan Rodgers to be successful with Liverpool.

Curtis, who will not be joining his former boss at Anfield, is confident Rodgers will be able to recreate the success he had at the Liberty Stadium under the harsh spotlight at Liverpool.

"If the players buy into what Brendan's trying to preach to them, then you can only see good things to come for Liverpool," he told talkSPORT.

"He's a top-class coach, a top-class manager, but he is a real top-class man as well.

"He has this knack of being able to say the right things, do the right things.

"He got a British mentality, yet he has almost got a continental feel about him in the way that he coaches. It is a tremendous combination.

"I can see the Liverpool fans probably wanted a bigger name but he is a terrific young manager.

"He is the epitome of the modern-day manager. He is bright, he is fresh, he is really innovative and I'm sure he will do a fantastic job there."