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Brendan Rodgers has opened up about how ‘draining’ the Liverpool job became, after coming “close as anyone” to winning the Premier League with the club.

The Northern Irishman spent just over three seasons at Anfield and came within two points of ending the club’s long wait for a top flight title.

But after his second placed finish in 2013/14 – with his side offering some of the best football seen in decades – his side gradually deteriorated, and he was sacked in October 2015.

Rodgers spent seven months out before being appointed Celtic manager, where he won the domestic treble in his first campaign, guiding his side to an unbeaten season aside from European competition.

His reputation is growing once more in Glasgow, although his reward for steering Celtic into the Champions League was a group containing Barcelona, Juventus and Anderlecht.

But speaking at an event to raise money for the Northern Ireland Hospice, a charity he is an ambassador of, Rodgers revealed how he relishes the pressure once more after an “intense” spell at on Merseyside.

“When I came out of Liverpool I needed a break,” Rodgers said. “It was so intense. It was draining. We moved to London just to come away from it

“I had offers from England and a couple from China, where the money is very good, and that’s tempting for a boy from Northern Ireland.

“But I had come out of one of the biggest institutions in the world and I had to find that pressure again. I’ve got that now.

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“With Liverpool you can go away from home and draw and that’s OK. But Celtic, you have to win every game. It’s a different pressure.”

When praised during the Q&A session by a Liverpool supporter in the crowd in Belfast - “they don’t know how lucky they are,” the Scouser said – Rodgers said: “Thank you.

“I came as close as anyone there to the holy grail of winning the league. That season, with the fans, it was special.”