Jordan Henderson was bought in by manager Kenny Dalglish from Sunderland for a fee of £18 million . At that time, it looked like Henderson was bought in to succeed Steven Gerrard, a near impossible task. He flopped so badly that there were talks of transferring him. In 2015, he took over captaincy from Gerrard.
Henderson isn’t the best player technically. His technical ability belongs to the mid table Premier League clubs. But, what he has is a very high work rate and he is very passionate. Also, for a midfielder, his defensive awareness is brilliant.
Jurgen Klopp and Jordan Henderson is the perfect example of a manager extracting the best out of a player. As Jordan wasn’t good with creating chances, Klopp used him to cover for Trent Alexander-Arnold, who has the duties of creating chances and putting in crosses, which leaves behind space. Henderson is the one who stops counter-attacks at source, not allowing opponents to attack that space left behind by Trent.
He is quite good at breaking-up play. When you watch a “Best of Jordan Henderson” video, you wouldn’t find defence splitting passes, brilliant goals but what you’d see is him breaking up play, doing defensive work, which is testament to what he does on the pitch. He went from being Horrendous Henderson to being Heroic Henderson.
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