Jordan Henderson

[Buzzo]

The pile on is in full swing I see.

[Charly]

Well if he hasn't been paid anything tax shouldn't be an issue

Im confused. He would rather receive nothing so he doesnt have to pay tax rather than be paid and lose 40% to the taxman?

Someone explain this?

[Doc_Piptorious]

He's ****ed up beyond belief and probably doesn't deserve any sympathy, but I'm surprised at the vitriol unleashed at him here and on Twitter. Most fans got what they wanted - his departure - and I don't see why what happens after that should be cause for delight, celebration or whatever. He's ****ed up, but surely given he lifted everything there is to win as LFC captain ought to have earned him a bit of respect, regardless of what happened afterwards. I've even seen some fans saying he should never be allowed back into the 'LFC family' and should be erased. What the ****?

What he was like as a player for us in his prime cannot be taken away or erased. The on pitch guy cannot be retro actively cancelled, erased or whatever term one choses.

What he did as a player will always be just that.


However the person, the man away from the pitch. Well he has shown his character or rather lack of such a number of times now, and his current attempts at trying to use the media to push out his version, sorry his versions as it seems to change almost daily, of events is just showing him up as being a very stupid man but also one with an immense ego imo.


He will forever be a player that was a very important part of what was one of our best ever teams, maybe even best ever team. He will also be a guy who showed himself, more than a lot of other players due to his constant attempts at spraying bull****, to be lacking in any firm values of his own bar self service and that any of his past beliefs, causes or opinions were just useful tools in pushing his "brand"

Think if he had just left the club and if asked why he chose going to Saudi had just come out with some trite line like "The offer that was put to me was too good to turn down at this stage of my career" then he would still have gotten stick for turning his back on the LGBTQ community that he claimed meant so much to him but at least he would have had a number of people looking at him and saying "well at least he was honest in saying it was for the money"


He was fully entitled to go play for any club whose offer he liked.He was fully entitled to turn his back on people he once claimed mattered so much to him. He was fully entitled to say he was going to Saudi to try and change the culture and say that with the same level of "sincerity" that he once used when speaking about the LGBTQ community, but those that then listen to what he said and who looked at how he acted are then entitled to question his words when they conflict badly with his past words.

Henderson can do and say as he pleases, but he is not immune to owning the outcome to those words and actions.


Was he a really important player for us? Very much so.

Was he one of the better captain I have seen at the club? For me he was the best club captain we had since the late 1980s.


Has he shown himself to possibly be nothing more than a self serving shallow weak minded greedy man since leaving and maybe also in that time period just before leaving? It certainly appears that way.



Henderson the player was immense in his prime. Henderson the man is apparantly proving to be a very underwhelming individual.

[Exiled_red]

He's ****ed up beyond belief and probably doesn't deserve any sympathy, but I'm surprised at the vitriol unleashed at him here and on Twitter. Most fans got what they wanted - his departure - and I don't see why what happens after that should be cause for delight, celebration or whatever. He's ****ed up, but surely given he lifted everything there is to win as LFC captain ought to have earned him a bit of respect, regardless of what happened afterwards. I've even seen some fans saying he should never be allowed back into the 'LFC family' and should be erased. What the ****?

I mentioned that despite the overhaul of the midfield I would have kept him as a senior player/club captain/off the field leader even if he wasn't playing. Seemingly he didn't want that, he still thought he should be playing regularly, which is fair enough, so he moved on that bit is fair enough.

On the face of it he moved to Saudi for the money and in doing so sold out his principles to a regime that was persecuting the people who he used to stand up for. For me that is a very difficult one to forgive. As 'mistakes' go that's a massive one. Despite that he was our captain for 8(?) years and responsible for alot of the leadership of one of the greatest teams I have ever seen and arguably one of the greatest LFC teams ever, lifting every trophy going. So my views on him are rather conflicted. I feel like as a person I should dislike him for selling out his principles but as a football fan I should like him because of what he did for the club. My views on it swing about more or less everytime I think about him.

Would he be welcome back at Anfield, certainly by the players and the management team I would say yes, amongst the fans I am not so sure. I feel like he might end up with a Graeme Souness type relationship where for some the scars take a long time to heal...

[Exiled_red]

Mocking aside, if he doesn't get paid then it will serve a lesson to any player that it's a shambles of a league. Can they really afford to tarnish their own competition?

IMO they can't afford to not pay him as it would be a PR disaster for them, and they would struggle to attract big name players and if they are trying to grow the league/game over there that would be the last thing that they want.

[Shaggy]

He's ****ed up beyond belief and probably doesn't deserve any sympathy, but I'm surprised at the vitriol unleashed at him here and on Twitter. Most fans got what they wanted - his departure - and I don't see why what happens after that should be cause for delight, celebration or whatever. He's ****ed up, but surely given he lifted everything there is to win as LFC captain ought to have earned him a bit of respect, regardless of what happened afterwards. I've even seen some fans saying he should never be allowed back into the 'LFC family' and should be erased. What the ****?

[Doc_Piptorious]

Well if he hasn't been paid anything tax shouldn't be an issue

Exactly. Sounds to me like he is just trying to use the media again to paint what he thinks is a more positive image.


Give it six months or so of living away from Saudi and he will be bleating on about human rights again whilst searching down the back of a drawer for his rainbow laces.

[Irishnev]

He's made an absolute fool of himself

I’m delighted his true colours are seen, the way he went public on his contract renegotiations was ****housery tbh and we pocketed Almost 16m for him as well - jobs a goddun

[danperkins]

He's made an absolute fool of himself

[Norbs]

Mocking aside, if he doesn't get paid then it will serve a lesson to any player that it's a shambles of a league. Can they really afford to tarnish their own competition?

[Slinky Skills]

What a ****ing clown lol.

[Liverpool]

Got to be one of the biggest **** ups of all time this

[SB]

Ajax can't be any worse than what he's seen recently

Ajax would be a huge improvement all round I’d have thought

[Exiled_red]

****ing lol


From The Telegraph's chief football writer Sam Wallace and football news correspondent Matt Law:

Jordan Henderson has not yet earned a penny from his short time in Saudi Arabia having deferred salary payments, Telegraph Sport has learned.

Former Liverpool midfielder Henderson has travelled to Europe to complete a move to Ajax having agreed with the Saudi Pro League club Al-Ettifaq a mutual cancellation of the three-year contract he signed in the summer.

Henderson’s U-turn is set to cost him millions and Telegraph Sport can now reveal that he has left Saudi without earning any of his £350,000-a-week wages to date, with sources close to the player believing he may never be paid for the six months he spent at Al-Ettifaq.

The key reason for the deferral is not entirely clear, but Telegraph Sport understands that he did so in part so that he could return to Britain to play for England in the short term, unrestricted by the time limitations placed on those without UK taxpayer status.

Under UK law, an individual is considered resident for tax purposes if they spend more than 90 days in the country.

Henderson is understood to have been advised that up to the end of last year, pro rata he was due 21 days in Britain if he wished to be considered non-resident for tax reasons. That limitation in spending time in Britain was the key part of his initial decision to defer any salary payments from the Saudi Pro League club Al-Ettifaq. Returning to Britain with his young family to visit friends and relatives was also part of the consideration.

As a result, Henderson had not been paid any of the £350,000-per-week salary that he agreed in July. Now that he is leaving Saudi after just six months, it is quite possible that he never will. Sources close to the player say that the expectation is that he will not be paid for the six months he spent in the Saudi Pro League.

On Tuesday morning, he agreed with Al-Ettifaq executives that the contract would be cancelled by mutual agreement and he flew back to Britain. He has an agreement in principle with Ajax to join the Eredivisie club although as of 3pm on Wednesday no announcement had been made as to whether that deal had been concluded.

It is expected that Henderson will explain his reasons behind leaving Saudi at some point although it is clear now that the former Liverpool captain was unhappy with life at the club in the city of Dammam on the Gulf coast.

Read more: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football...ttifaq-uk-tax/

Well if he hasn't been paid anything tax shouldn't be an issue

[peterbread]

He did do one last good thing for Liverpool by effectively paying for Endo.