Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers taking a cool approach to presence of returning Anfield heroes Rafael Benítez will deserve a great welcome when he comes back. He won the European Cup during his time here, which is a great achievement. On Benítez courting a return to Merseyside, Rodgers said: "Some managers will speak about other jobs, some won't. I won't speak about another manager in a position. No matter how much I might want the job. But that takes different types. Comparisons between Rodgers and Benítez are inevitable, but the Northern Irishman believes he has inherited a much tougher challenge to revive Liverpool than when his opponent took over the club nine years ago. He also thinks comparing his first season on Merseyside with that of Benítez is unfair, pointing out Liverpool were Champions League qualifiers in 2004 and well below that standard when Rodgers arrived last summer. "When you go to a club as a manager, the cards are dealt differently depending where you go in," Rodgers said. It's no disrespect to anyone who has been before, but the reality is we were eighth last season. If we had taken over a club in the Champions League, it might have been a different story. The season the club won the Champions League [2005] they finished on 58 points and actually outside the top four. The season before Gérard Houllier had 60 points and finished fourth. Everyone knows the history of that season in terms of winning the Champions League which bought them another season from which you can build and then move forward. Rodgers says he wants to create an environment where the most celebrated ex-players - and there is none more admired than Dalglish - continue to find a role at Liverpool in a supportive capacity. It was subject he said he discussed with Henry and Tom Werner when the Boston pair were in Liverpool this week. Dalglish looks likely to fill the club ambassador role he enjoyed before taking over from Roy Hodgson in 2011. "The most important thing for me is the club, not Brendan Rodgers," he said. If I was only worried about myself then maybe having people around with great histories would worry me. But it doesn't one bit. I want to get people back involved in the club that supporters and kids have an identity with. That just can't be me. This club is full of great legends. That doesn't intimidate me, I enjoy speaking with these people. That's maybe because I have a total belief in what I do. But it's very important that if we are one of the great football families in the world, then you have to have members of that family here. I stressed to the owners in our meeting that this is something I want to push forward in the summer. This is a wonderful football club. With the likes of Jamie Carragher moving on in the summer, I want to look around and see people with a link to the past. We will be looking to do that in a number of areas, whether that be through coaching or ambassadorial roles.