Jordan Henderson to Celtic story in Daily Record is pie in the sky

Henderson rumour is just pie in the sky…

Liverpool football manager Brendan Rodgers and his players Jordan Henderson (R) Martin Skrtel (L) give a traditional greeting to the media upon arriving at Suvarnabhumi International airport in Bangkok on July 13, 2015. (Photo PORNCHAI KITTIWONGSAKUL/AFP via Getty Images)

This is the season for transfer rumours. Some complete nonsense and some with a hint of truth, and one that’s been doing the rounds these past 24 hours is in my view in the complete nonsense category.

According to Daily Record, Jordan Henderson is a transfer target for Brendan Rodgers. Really? Anyone who believes this fable is as deluded as the hacks who came up with the story. Which is one hundred percent fabricated fantasy.

Jordan Henderson as we know was one of those players who chased the cash on offer from Saudi Arabia, and now it seems he’s unhappy. Henderson of course played under Brendan Rodgers at Liverpool and the attention seeking SMSM have put together these two facts together and decided he’s a target for Celtic.

Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers celebrates with Jordan Henderson after the English FA Cup quarter-final replay match between Blackburn Rovers and Liverpool at Ewood Park in Blackburn, on April 8, 2015. (Photo PAUL ELLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

It’s complete garbage. Nothing else, that’s what it is. They’ve added two and two and equalled 18. It’s complete made up nonsense. Henderson is a fine player, that’s not in doubt, but he’s not even on Celtic’s radar. Why do I know that? Well his reported salary of £700k a week is just one of the many stumbling blocks.

Henderson may well be looking for a way out of the Gulf State, but the EPL will be his most likely destination, not Celtic.

Justifying the story the Record quotes from Henderson’s biography: “Our relationship was good by the time Brendan left. “I needed his help. I needed him to give me opportunities and teach me tactically, and eventually he made me captain. For him to recognise the effort I had put in to be the player he wanted me to be, to acknowledge that I had grown in terms of my tactical awareness and to give me opportunities says a lot.

Manager Brendan Rodgers of Liverpool congratulates Jordan Henderson of Liverpool on scoring their second goal during the Barclays Premier League match between Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool at White Hart Lane on December 15, 2013. (Photo by Paul Gilham/Getty Images)

“Kenny (Dalglish) had brought the club back together and Brendan had shown us what was possible at Liverpool in an era when we were competing with clubs owned by oligarchs and nation states. He deserves more credit than he gets. When Brendan left, I thanked him for what he had done for me and began to think about who the next manager would be and whether he would want me. It was harsh that Brendan hadn’t got the chance to finish what he had started.”

That last point that Henderson makes is interesting because at Celtic, Rodgers is getting the chance to finish what we started back in 2016.

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