With this switch, the Reds captain has brought an end to his 12-year association with the Anfield outfit.
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Liverpool midfielder Jordan Henderson has left the Reds to join Saudi Arabian club Al-Ettifaq recently. With this switch, the Reds captain has brought an end to his 12-year association with the Anfield outfit. During this period, he has enjoyed some memorable moments with the club. None more so after Jurgen Klopp arrived as their manager. It was undoubtedly the most successful phase of Liverpool’s Premier League era.
Under Jurgen Klopp’s management, Jordan Henderson was part of the team that won several major honours including the Champions League and Premier League titles. His manager Klopp only had good words to describe the English international following his departure from the club. “In the moment, it is absolutely fine but it was already ongoing for a while now, so we had time to adapt to it and get used to it. It is football, it is life, it is normal, these kind of things happen,” he was quoted as saying by the club’s website.
He added: “Monday when we arrived back in Liverpool, Hendo was waiting for us to say goodbye properly to the team and to the coaching staff as well, so that was a really nice gesture – a really nice thing to do. I know it was a really, really tough decision for Hendo and I was around or with him all the way. It’s sad, absolutely strange, because he is the only captain I had here at Liverpool, but I think it is exciting for him as well. We will miss him, without a shadow of a doubt, that’s clear – as a man and as a player. But, as I said, that’s football.”
Then Klopp went into detail to explain what type of footballer Henderson was on the pitch. “Hendo is a really good package, a really good package. There is the physical part, but there is the super-technical part. He is technically really, really good. Which sometimes players, because of the role they see themselves [in] on the pitch, this fighter and stuff like this, don’t always show,” he explained.
The Liverpool manager was also impressed with the versatility showed by Henderson during his time at Anfield. “You cannot have this amount of Premier League games, you cannot be captain of Liverpool, you cannot play in the most important games in the world if you are technically not on a super-high level – and he is. Right foot, left foot really good. Tactically he improved the most since we are here, had to play different positions, did that really well. Even played centre-half for us. Had to play No.6, I thought he played a few outstanding games on six,” he added.
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