“You know, years ago, for instance, women or kids probably couldn’t play football, but now I’m over there and there’s loads of women and girls playing football, so slowly things can change. I can’t promise anything, but what I can do is sit here and say I have my values and beliefs. And I strongly believe that me playing in Saudi Arabia is a positive thing.”
Can you have too much of a positive thing? Well, so far as Jordan Henderson is concerned, it seems he’s had his fill after a good six months of positivity.
Numerous opinions and column inches were churned out when former England midfielder and staunch LGBTQ+ ally Henderson decided to bring the curtain down on a superb Liverpool career and join Saudi Pro League side Al Ettifaq. Whatever your views on the move were, as the quote above given to The Athletic demonstrates, scrambling around for a move at the first opening of a transfer window was not in the script.
As reported by The Daily Mail, the 33-year-old has struggled to settle in Saudi Arabia, with his unhappiness compounded on the pitch. Al Ettifaq are winless in eight matches, a run that has piled pressure on boss Steven Gerrard, Henderson’s former Liverpool teammate.
After such a lucrative and extensively discussed goodbye, Henderson returning…
