BRENDAN Rodgers tonight revealed that he believed he had taken Celtic as far as he could after being confirmed as they new Leicester City manager.

Rodgers led the Parkhead club to domestic trebles in his first two seasons in charge and also into the Champions League group stages.

But this season they failed to failed to even make the Champions League play-off and lost their first league game to Rangers at Ibrox in December.

The Northern Irishman's voiced his unhappiness at the transfer business that the Glasgow club conducted during the summer publicly.

In his first interview with Leicester's official television channel, the former Swansea City and Liverpool boss stressed he had enjoyed his time at Celtic and was in no rush to leave.

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However, the 46-year-old admitted that he felt there was nothing more he could achieve in Scotland when the former English champions approached him.

Speaking to LCTV, Rodgers said: “It feels great. It’s obviously come very quickly and obviously, of course, over the last few days, but I know I’m joining a fantastic club that has grown so quickly over these last few years.

“I’m just delighted to be here. I think there was a number of reasons (why I joined). I was certainly in no hurry to leave Celtic. Celtic is a club that’s a huge club worldwide, a renowned club, and I loved working with the players there.

“We were on a journey of great success over these last years but when the opportunity came to talk to Leicester and I was able to analyse it, it allowed me to think that I’d probably achieved and taken the club maybe at Celtic as far as I could at this moment.

“The opportunity to speak with Leicester and find out their ambitions and where we can grow the club and the training facility. Of course, the big attraction for me is working with the players.

“It’s a young squad, a very dynamic squad, it’s got huge potential and you’ve got some of the players with good experience also. There was a number of factors in being here and, like I say, I’m absolutely delighted.”

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Rodgers added: “Coming into the club at this point of the season, it’s never normally ideal, but it gives me the chance to observe and analyse the players over this last period of games.

“I know it’s been a really difficult season for the club on and off the pitch. It’s been really emotional in many ways.

“For me it’s the case of just trying to stabilise the emotion of everything that’s happened this season and looking to inspire the players so that they can then inspire the supporters.

“Myself and my staff will come in and we’ll look to immediately put in place our philosophy and that identity that my teams normally play with and hopefully then over the course of time, the supporters will recognise that and they’ll come to enjoy it.

“Supporters maybe have seen my teams at Swansea and at Liverpool and at Celtic and will recognise how intensely we try to press the game and from that.

“That’s the base then to use your qualities technically so that will be something that we look to do over the course of time and that will take place straight after the game (vs. Brighton & Hove Albion) and into our first training session.”

"It’s obviously a league I was involved in heavily with both those clubs and it’s been nearly three years away from it, but of course, you’re observing from the outside looking in.

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“The one thing I’ve always known with the Premier League, it gets quicker each season. I felt that when I was there with Swansea and Liverpool and it doesn’t look any different to that, so I’m really looking forward to the challenge of coming to work with the players.

“They seem a very honest group of boys who want to work well. We want to go on and impose that way of working and give them the confidence and clarity to play to a level that I believe they can play at.

“The two things that I would always ask for is commitment and a positive attitude. Players will make mistakes, but you have to be able to let them go, but primarily I always ask my teams to play with that commitment, that structure, but also the attitude.

"I want them to be really aggressive in the game, both with and without the ball, so those will be the messages early on and then, of course, when we’ve had more working time together we can start to implement the tactical ideas.”

“My natural environment is on the grass, working with players, and that’s something that, as I’ve said, I can’t wait for.”

Rodgers expressed his hope he could play a part in rebuilding Leicester following the tragic death of their chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha in a helicopter crash last year.

“I’d just like to say that I’m very privileged and honoured to be here as the manager,” he said. “I promise that I’ll give my life to making them proud of their team and proud of their club, and I look forward to working with them because together we’re stronger.

“It’s been a really difficult period, like I say, but my message is that together we’ll be stronger and on and off the pitch let’s make the right steps forward and I look forward to, like I say, making them proud of their team.”