“I never felt love at Liverpool”

A symbol of Liverpool who recently moved to football from Saudi Arabia defended himself in an interview published this Tuesday by The Athletic to the criticism his march received (including from the LGBTQ+ collective) and even launched some veiled accusations. “I never felt loved by anyone Liverpool Told me,” says this emblem.

It is about until this month of July captain of Liverpool, Jordan Hendersonwho, at the age of 33, signed in the said month until 2026 for the said Saudi club, where his coach is Steven Gerrard. One of the reasons why the outlet has been criticized is because, as a great defender of the LGBTQ+ community, it played in a country where its rights are not respected.

“I can understand the frustration. I can understand the anger. All I can say is that I’m sorry they feel that way. My intention was never to hurt anyone,” he said. Jordan Henderson in The Athletic.

After 12 seasons in the Liverpool, many fans were surprised by the captain’s decision to leave the club. But henderson asserting that he felt he was no longer essential to the plans of Jurgen Klopp, coach of the ‘reds’.

The player now of Al-Ettifaq He told the aforementioned outlet: “Some things set off alarm signals for me. I’ve always had a very good relationship with Jürgen. He is very honest with me. I won’t go into detail about the conversation, it’s private, but I know I won’t play too much. I know that new players will come in my position.”

Henderson denied that he went to Al-Ettifaq for money. “People may believe me or not, but money throughout my life and career has never been my motivation. Never. But you have to feel loved, appreciated. And money is part of it. But the thing that money comes later. If a person is from the Liverpool If he told me they wanted me to stay, we talked. It’s not like that.”

Jordan Henderson is concentrated on the English team preparing matches against Ukraine (on Saturday, of the qualifying phase for Euro 2024) and Scotland (friendly).

The English LGBT collective 3LIONSPRIDE made a statement stating that they would never mention the name of henderson nor carry a banner with the face in the middle. It hurts in the middle now of Al-Ettifaq.

“It matters to me. People have the right to give their opinion. All I can say is that I apologize. I’m sorry for making them feel like this. But I haven’t changed as a person,” said Henderson, who arrived in Liverpool in 2011 from sunderlands. He played 492 games as a ‘red’, was captain and among other titles he won the Premier League, the Champions League, the FA Cup and two League Cups.