Kewell said: "I'm sorry to say that Leeds never offered me a new contract and never put actually figures and numbers in front of me for me to sit down and discuss.
"It's disappointing, I was there nine years and you expect a friendship with the club, but there was no friendship there. They didn't want to offer me a contract.
The former Leeds forward also made it clear that he was not settling for second best when he snubbed the offer of Champions League football in favour of a move to his boyhood heroes.
"People love what they do. If someone asked you to go and be a road sweeper somewhere else and you didn't want to go, why should you have to do that, even if it was to get more money but something you didn't want to do?
"Don't get me wrong, the other clubs who came for me are great ones. But playing for Liverpool is my main aim.
Many of Kewell's biggest critics feel he has betrayed the club that launched him onto the big stage. The player himself, though, fails to see the reasoning in such an argument.
"Why do I have to repay Leeds? They never bought me when I was young, they were only doing what they do with normal players and that didn't involve paying a big fee for me.
"In a way they have come up trumps. It's disappointing how the chairman at Leeds has portrayed me, but I can't do anything about that. All I can say is the fans there were always great to me, and I was grateful for that.
"It's been a shame the way it has panned out. I have left a great club and gone to a great club, it would have been nice for it to be all smiles and cheerful.
"But the last few days it has been blown out of all proportion. It has taken the shine away, but I'm just happy to be here now."
"Everyone kept on telling me I should be playing Champions League, but I will be! I think the Premiership is the most exciting to win and I'm in that, it would have been great to be in the Champions League but there's other cups and there a lot of things I can still do here.
"I believe this team can bring back the days when I used to watch my countryman Craig Johnston as a kid, we can give the fans what they deserve."