Part two of our press conference transcript includes much more from Brendan Rodgers as he begins life as the new Reading manager.

Reading World has a full video interview with Brendan and complete press conference video live right now.

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Before you took the Watford job as the manager, people said you were an outstanding coach but it's a different question to be a manager and a man manager. Do you feel now that you have the grasp of that from your six months at Watford? 
I think the main success was always working with people. Anyone who knows me and obviously the players that I've worked under; I've worked with children from five years of age through to the biggest players in world football. For me it's always the same: I treat people with respect. I always look at their human need and gain that respect. Whether that's working with a child or whether that's working with the biggest players, and at Watford it was exactly the same, I work with the respect, with people.

If I had to make a decision, with all due respect I have been given a lot of opportunities very early on in my career, but without being arrogant It's because I can make decisions and if I have to make them I can make them. It always comes off the back of treating people as I would like to be treated and that's a respectful way. That I have learned at the period at Watford, it was terrific and I have approached that job like I have all my other jobs, doing to the very best of my ability. I will do exactly the same here. 

Sir John, why was Brendan the outstanding candidate and how many years will you give him to get the squad back into the Premier League?
Well Brendan has already answered that; he will do it just as soon as he possibly can. But I think that you gave two good years in progress and as you so rightly pointed out he has big boots to fill with Steve Coppell. However I think that Brendan's credentials and the fact that he has all that experience, he's gone away as you will, honed his talents at Chelsea and then gone on to Watford where he did a very good job this past season.

You speak as you find and as I say we know Brendan, it's not as though we are dealing with someone who is an unknown quantity. So the choice, and he interviewed incredibly well, was the ideal way forward for Reading Football Club. It really was just very easy for us to welcome Brendan back to Reading Football Club. We've heard his enthusiasm for the club all we all share that enthusiasm.

He knows about the Reading way - he lives in the town and so on so I find him placely committed to this area. We are a community club after all is said and done, and I am delighted that he has taken up the gauntlet, I think he is going to serve us very well: the Football Club and the local area.

Brendan, just what do you feel this club is capable of?
I think you have seen that in the last four to five years. When you drive up into here you see that it is a Premier League setup. Obviously for many clubs that have been promoted from the Championship and have gone into the Premier League it's deemed heaven for most - but for a lot of clubs it has been hell. I think you see this club has been managed very well over the last 15 - 20 years which puts us in the situation we see today: a club that is run on real, sound business principles that will always support and give the manager an opportunity.

The aim is obviously to be a sustainable club in the Premier League which nowadays is very hard indeed. My ambition to come to here is exactly that, people will talk about promotion but the objective is much more than that: it is to become a sustainable club and surely that is something this club can be.

I think you only need to see the applicants that wanted to come to here to see that the club is one everyone would love the opportunity to manage. I sit here very fortunate enough to be given that opportunity. The emotion aside, it's a job that I am really looking forward to and looking to kick on actually.

What sort of legacy has Steve Coppell left behind?
I had experience with Steve, I was here a short period of time when he came in then obviously I moved to Chelsea. I'm replacing here a great coach, a great manager and something very important to me, a great man. I have learned by working very closely with Steve, listening and watching him, how he behaves himself. I am replacing a coach with great integrity and an outstanding manager.

It's a new cycle and an exciting cycle and I'm really looking forward to building on what Steve has done here. Hopefully I can become the second manager to take the club into the Premier League, which would be the dream of everyone. It's a great journey we are looking forward to, and none more so than me.

Read part three for more.