Ex-Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers filled Alberto Moreno with 'rage', defender likes Jurgen Klopp 'trust'

Moreno claims Rodgers did not trust him as much as his replacement

Alberto Moreno with Jurgen Klopp

Alberto Moreno has spoken of the "inner anger, rage almost" that he felt under Brendan Rodgers earlier this season.

The Liverpool defender was furious with the lack of communication that coincided with being left out of the side.

However, the arrival of Jurgen Klopp appears to have calmed the Spaniard.

Moreno did not start any of Liverpool's first five games of the season under Rodgers, with 18-year-old Joe Gomez preferred.

The 23-year-old has since put in a series of impressive displays under Klopp and credits the German with having a positive impact at Anfield.

"I think that it has been a 100 percent change. Everything is totally different," Moreno said.

"He (Klopp) spoke to all the players and ... he told us we all started from zero. I do feel he trusts me, he spends a lot of time with me.

"The fact he has spent so much time with me, I think, shows up in good performances on the field.

"I just get the impression that he (Klopp) really feels the game."

The Spaniard was less effusive about Rodgers. He said he never wanted to leave the club while sat on the sidelines but was "angry" at being dropped without a clear explanation.

"I perhaps felt that he (Rodgers) didn't have quite so much confidence in me, certainly at the start of this season," Moreno said.

"He told me I was training hard but then I didn't feature for those first five or six games.

"He said to me that it was still early in the season and that my opportunity would come, but after the first game against Stoke City, when we kept a clean sheet, he said he wasn't going to change anything defensively at that point.

"It never entered my head that I was going to leave. I want to stay for ever. But I had this inner anger, a rage almost.

"I felt I was playing well, training well. He told me I was training well. But I couldn't see why I wasn't getting a chance."

Liverpool play Chelsea this weekend.