i thought i was being overly generous tbh i fully admit to loathing the useless **** and the fact we let Benny leave and signed that show pony still grates . Knew within 5 mins of his debut he was going to be a total waste when instead of just doing a normal 5 yard diagonal pass he tried a rabona pass and put the ball straight out of play and later got sent off His prime was quite short and was mainly under Mourinho who made it clear to him no showboating unless it is the only way to pass and had the resources that meant he could enforce
Henderson agreed to terminate contract over in Saudi. Wonder if the extra bit of money was worth the tarnished reputation when now going to move to another club when could have stayed at lfc and just agreed to be a squad player getting lots of game time due to injuries and nunber of matches.
long term he's massively massively damaged himself. By this i mean he could have set himself of as a paragon of virtue in this post football career in TV or whatever. At this point he is going to be sat with the likes of joey barton in the employment agency looking for a job on GB news. what he has done though is tired to move outside the uk to avoid having to pay massive tax on the Saudi earnings when he comes to the uk. If he is more than 90 days in the uk before april 2025 then he is liable for uk tax on those earnings. I can only presume he's waved a lot of bonuses and such to get out of his deal. Maybe he's even taken a massive hit and would have been better off staying here. In any event if he stayed at LFC he'd have stood in the centre circle as 6 and we probably wouldn't have bought endo, or at least certainly not have bought gravenberch late on so yeah he'd have played plenty of games The info is he played a sum total of 17 games or 1727 minutes over there whereas someone like endo who was even used more sparingly by klopp has 25 games under his belt as 1376mins. Gravenberch has been used even less but still has 25games and 1150mins under his belt. I can only assume henderosn thinks he should be starting and is owed something. When this guy is 40 or 50 do we see him being a pundit on tv? I thnk not at this point. He will maybe struggle to get a slot given the controversy
He's going to Ajax. More likely to follow him, not to Ajax but out of the Saudi league. Firmino reportedly not settled there either and there are others.
Blinded by the money and nice agent cut that didn’t actually do any due diligence into the country and the differences in its culture etc. who’d have thought it…
They are all badly advised as anyone form uk who is uk tax resident need to stay out of uk until April l2025 to not get taxed. if if he'd thought to have done 12 months in the hell hole then this july in 2024 he would have been stung with the tax on his payments there (cannot call them earnings) he has clearly decided that he will pay the suadi tax bill for not staying 12 months but the tax liability is so much he has to to to holland for 12 months now (seaosn and a half) to avoid paying the tax here. i can only imagine that he must be accepting something like 70k or less as ajax top earners are on that. (3 of them) and the rest on 30k so if we say he was on 120k or something in england. or could be. then thats a 50k per week before tax that he is willing to drop to go there. just 2.5million so the tax bill to come home must be way higher than that. If its say 5mil then he had to have been on 10mil for 6 months work roughly which is going to come out oat somewhere around the 400k a week mark. Leaving aside all the other aspects of this shcoking case of stupidity. The fact these guys are not even willing to locate family in dubai and take the pain of being remote from them for 70% of the time means the place must be an absolute **** hole for them to live in. And i don't men playing in front of 700 people **** hole. i eman strict and scrary.
Reports saying he's taking a 75% pay cut to go to Ajax. Part way to dispelling the story that he's all about the money
so we can assume we x4 his wages to get back to 400k a week so he's getting 100k a week of ajax? I nother words he's protecting a shed load of dirty blood money from the uk taxman in the order of 10mil.
I've no idea about the amounts involved and couldn't guess. Unless he stayed in Saudi until he retired, his most likely destination would have been European or maybe even USA, not England, so he would always have kept the money from the taxman. I wonder if we'll get an exit interview from him.
Not necessarily about feeling like you're owed something. If you've been an integral part of a successful team, maybe you just won't be happy in the same environment as a bit part; "what was" staring you in the face every day. Maybe he just needed a change and made a silly (very silly) decision Clearly blinded by a big pot of cash though
Klopp said certain players are nightmares when they’re not picked/playing, and Hendo was one of them. Such a poor decision to go there though
My understanding is that Klopp meets every player as soon as preseason is back and they discuss the commitment to the season ahead. Henderson clearly came back in tip top shape for day 1 but very quickly after that these things started happening. I can only assume henderson didn't give a flat out no to Gerrard at the outset and encouraged the move after finding he wasn't assure of a place in the team. I'm fully confident that as we speak henderson is much much wealthier if he can get the money out of Saudi but is poorer in terms of fitness and quality minutes played.
Jordan Henderson has not yet earned a penny of his £350,000-a-week wages from Al-Ettifaq, having deferred salary payments. Sources close to the player believe he may never be paid for the six months he spent there. [Telegraph]
