Liverpool boss Rafa Benitez is confident Andrea Dossena will come good.

He told liverpoolfc.tv: "When you buy a foreign player you have to be patient. Look at Daniel Agger - for the first few months everyone was going 'hmm'. They were not talking really well about him. One year later and he's the best technical centre-back in the Premier League.

"We can talk about players in a few months after seeing how they progress - that's when we can talk about whether they are the right standard for us."