HE GOT ME SACKED

                                     Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson

Former Liverpool director of football Damien Comolli claims that signing stand-in England captain Jordan Henderson was 'one of the main reasons I got sacked'.

The Frenchman, who has also worked as a director at Arsenal and Tottenham, was dismissed from his role at Anfield in 2012 for failures in the transfer market - which included being told that Henderson was a 'waste of money.

Henderson's arrival from Sunderland for of fee of £16million in June 2011 raised eyebrows, but the midfielder has gone on to replace Steven Gerrard as Liverpool skipper and was handed the England captaincy for Tuesday's goalless draw with Slovenia. 

                                  former Liverpool director Damien Comolli

Henderson is one of the main reasons I got sacked,' Comolli told News Today through a telephone interview. 'The day I got sacked they told me I had made a big mistake on Jordan and he was a waste of money.

'Everybody is entitled to their own opinion, but I think we paid the right price. He was a young English, British player and we know very often that British players are overvalued. But we were more than happy to pay the price because we thought he would become an outstanding player.

'I never said it publicly, but I was convinced he would be the future captain. People will say it is easy to say now, but I was convinced at the time that he would become the Liverpool captain. Now he is and he is also the England captain.'

SOURCE:News Today                                 EVENT:English Premier League               

LOCATION:GABORONE                            TIME:17:47

DATE:12 OCTOBER                                                          AUTHOR:Dithapelo Miti