Brendan Rodgers is the new Liverpool manager, and he feels blessed to have such a role.

"I'm very proud, it's a club with wonderful tradition and I feel very blessed with the opportunity to manage the club," he said in the press conference

"Once I had found out I was the number one target from the important people at Liverpool it was quite an easy decision.

"My pathway as a young coach has been different to most managers. I have actually been coaching and working in football for 20 years. At Chelsea I had experience of working with big players.

"I look at Kenny Dalglish, he was the manager (of Liverpool in 1985) at 34 and resigned at 39. I arrive here at 39."

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