Former Liverpool chief Damien Comolli says the club's owners didn't rate Jordan Henderson when he arrived from Sunderland. Henderson is now being considered as Steven Gerrard's successor as club captain.
He told the Daily Mail: "When people talk to me nowadays about Liverpool, they say what a fantastic job you did in bringing players like Luis Suarez and Jordan Henderson to the club.
"The issue I have got is when a group of owners approach somebody like me and say we want to invest for the long term, we want you to sign young players, we want you to put together a squad which has a future for the next three to five years, we want you to work with the academy and we start to do all this and after a few months or a few years they say: 'Sorry, it's not working out'.
"You cannot say you have to focus on the future and at the same time say the young players are not ready to compete at the top level.
"When I left Liverpool, the owners told me Henderson was a massive mistake. Now he's turned out to be the next Liverpool captain and he's a regular in every game."
