• 'You couldn't talk about soccer with them' • Benítez happy to be working with Moratti

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Rafael Benítez has spoken of his relief to be working with Internazionale's president, Massimo Moratti, instead of Liverpool's directors who "knew nothing about soccer".

Benítez joined the European and Italian champions in the close season having left Liverpool after six years in charge of the Premier League club.

"The last year at Liverpool I had directors who knew nothing about soccer and you couldn't talk about soccer with them," he said. "My relationship with president Moratti is good, he is a man who knows his soccer."

His working relationship with Liverpool's American owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett, who put the indebted club up for sale in April, was strained at times but Benítez had previously stayed silent about his Anfield exit.

Benítez, whose new side are joint top and host Bari on Wednesday in their fourth Serie A outing of the season, took over from José Mourinho after Inter sealed an unprecedented Italian treble last season.