I was aghast after moving to Liverpool - before eight wonderful years at the club

Pepe Reina has revealed his difficulties at adapting after his move to Liverpool in 2005, revealing he was "aghast" at the Merseyside weather upon arrival.

The former Spain international joined the Reds from Villarreal weeks after Rafa Benitez had led the Reds to a Champions League win in Istanbul and the one-time Barcelona man went on to play nearly 400 times in total before his 2013 exit.

Speaking to LALIGAWORLD, Reina, who won the FA Cup and the League Cup as a Liverpool player, has opened up on the dramatic change in climate he experienced when he first signed for around £6m nearly 19 years ago.

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"[In 2005] I moved on to what has been perhaps the most important sporting spell of my career, at the club where I competed best, where I felt best on a personal and collective level, in terms of competitiveness. I spent eight wonderful years in Liverpool," Reina said.

"I spent two weeks looking at my wife and saying 'What is this?' We came from somewhere where the average temperature was 25 degrees but there, in July, it rained non-stop for two weeks. I was aghast. I didn't expect it and it was difficult to adapt to all that.

"It was difficult because I was still a kid; I was 23 years old. In the end, though, though it can be difficult to adapt, you adapt to everything when you are doing well, when you are happy, when you are comfortable and when you are valued. The rest is pretty much secondary.

"We dedicated ourselves to what we were doing, to forming a great family, because it is very cold there, and it was the best time, so everything