Liverpool boss Roy Hodgson admits leaving Fulham was difficult.
Hodgson, however, felt he was getting into a "comfort zone" with the Cottagers.
He told liverpoolfc.tv: "It was difficult. I enjoyed my time there enormously, it's a fantastic club. All the people, coaching staff and the players - you couldn't have asked for more in terms of a working environment and being with a group of people you want to work with every day.
"That was probably the optimum, but Liverpool are a bit special. Liverpool rank up there, in English terms certainly, with Manchester United and Arsenal as clubs that have a worldwide reputation.
"Our reputation stretches all over the world and, arguably, we could quite easy rank amongst the top 10 European clubs if you take the historic perspective as well as modern day.
"It was a difficult job to turn down and I was delighted when they offered it to me.
"I've left the 'comfort zone', I suppose, to come to something that is going to be anything other than a comfort zone. But I think I'm ready for that and I am looking forward to whatever fate throws at me."
