Damien Comolli says it was a difficult decision to leave St Etienne for Liverpool.
The Frenchman is Liverpool's new director of football.
He told liverpoolfc.tv: "It was very difficult to leave because I had a very, very good relationship with the manager there. We had two very, very difficult seasons, the one before last and last season, but this season we had a fantastic start and were top of the league for the first time in 26 years, or something like this.
"I had a great relationship with the coach and with the coaching staff from the academy, but I felt this was a great opportunity for me to come here, too good to turn down. I was not always in line with the ownership at St Etienne so it was probably the right thing for me to do, to move, and the people there understood it very well."
