Rodgers on Tiki Taka football
Brendan Rodgers wants Liverpool to play attacking football that is 'full of imagination' - but he insists the Reds won't try to copy Barcelona.
Some observers labelled the 39-year-old's former club Swansea 'the Barcelona of the Premier League'.
Even his players referred to how they were being asked to play as Tiki-Taka, a style associated with the Catalan giants.
But Rodgers insists Liverpool do not need to emulate anyone.
"The way I want to play here is the Liverpool way," he told Liverpoolfc.com. "The history and tradition of this club has been about offensive football, attacking football - but always with discipline.
"The game will be based around what Liverpool are about, which is control, dominating games with the ball, working very hard when you haven't got the ball, and keeping the game as simple as possible.
"Of course I'll bring in a certain philosophy which I'm attached to, but the principles of your game are based around the players.
"I suppose the Tiki-Taka football has come from Barcelona and that Spanish version. It probably came up with the players at Swansea, who referred to it a lot in our training and our work on having the ball and resting on the ball."
Resting on the ball means you work as hard as possible to recover possession when it is lost, only resting once the ball is back in control.
Regardless of all the above, though, Rodgers knows that winning is the most important principle for any Liverpool manager.
"It doesn't matter if it's Tiki-Taka football or possession football - the supporters and all of us want winning football. That's what the philosophy will be about.
"It will be about playing attractive, attacking football full of imagination. For me the best thing about the game other than scoring goals is having the football, and that'll be the idea and the fundamentals we'll work on - but they are playing ultimately to win.
"We're in the business of winning and hopefully we can entertain along the way."
Rodgers is already at Melwood preparing for 2012-13 but will have to wait until early July to start working with his new squad.
"I'm really looking forward to it," he added. "My natural environment is the training field. I enjoy working with players, I enjoy trying to help educate them and make them better on and off the field.
"The players have had quite a rest. The players in the Euros and whatnot, or the players who go to the Olympics - their pre-season will be a little bit broken this year. But I'm really looking forward to seeing the players who come back in early July and getting the ball out on the green grass."