But itâs not just the one manager who has played him , thatâs three now and the dame amount of international managers
Going on about MoTM awards highlights a lot of the issues - he isnât a highlight guy , he isnât all action like Gerrard , he isnât going to do the spectacular stuff which gets people on the edge of their seat - but what he does do is the ugly hard work that coaches and managers appreciate but wonât be spectacular
Salah , Mane etc they will get the headlines and the MoTM but a lot of there performances need the work done behind them
Henderson will give a lot of 7/10 games because he wonât do the spectacular stuff but the manager will pick him each and every time
As for the captaincy - not sure the relevance , Unless you think the best players should be captain - I think we have a few on the pitch but Henderson is the club captain for more than his ability with the ball at his feet
As for all the training stuff - no idea what thatâs all about but Henderson is a International Premiership player and his manager rates him highly and itâs a manager that isnât afraid to get rid of players if they donât fit his system and style of play
Well Kenny signed him, so he was always going to play him. He wanted to play him as a RW originally and whip balls in to Carroll with downing doing the same from the left.
Brendan came in and Henderson was used to do gerrards donkey work because his legs had gone at that point. I saw a comment a page or two back about that season where we almost won the league and apparently Henderson was immense. He had a decent season, every player in the team did, but he was nowhere near our best player. Suarez Sturridge Gerrard coutinho Sterling and even flanno performed at a higher level than what Jordan did.
JĂźrgen came in and gave everybody in the squad a chance. Even Moreno and Mignolet got a second shot at things. JĂźrgen didn't storm in and start throwing his weight around unsettling the players and squad, he sat back and had a look at things. You say he rates Henderson highly but he's signed four players for big money who play in the midfield three and he was also actively looking for a number 10 too. I suspect when Fabinho is up to speed with things then we will be seeing a lot less of Henderson (why else would we sign him) but let's wait and see.
As for England, well, this is the worst squad of English players that there has probably ever been. Apart from Kane there isn't one world class player there. Who's Hendersons competition? Livermore and Delph? Jesus Christ. One things for certain if you put the current Henderson up against the England players of ten years ago then he isn't even making the squad never mind making the first 11.
Nobody expects him to be a Steven Gerrard. James Milner isn't a Steven Gerrard either but he gives motm type performances quite often. Lucas was the same. More recently Gini has given them too, in fact, the first three games of the season I would go as far as saying Wijnaldum has been our best player and that's without doing anything spectacular.
I disagree on Henderson consistently giving 7/10 type performances. It's a lot more like 5-6 with the occasional 7 thrown in. Very rarely he will give an 8 and I don't think I've ever seen him reach as high as a 9. But there we go.
It's not me who talks about what he can do in training, it's his supporters. I keep reading over and over that he is under strict instructions playing as the DM but other players have played in that position under Klopp and weren't under the same restrictions. That argument is therefore void.
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