According to transfer specialist Fabrizio Romano, Ajax is showing concrete interest in adding (33) to the selection this winter. The Englishman has been Liverpool’s captain in recent years, but moved to Saudi Al Ettifaq last summer. However, he would like to leave there again.
It is an open secret that Ajax would prefer to add an experienced ‘number six’ to the selection of coach John van ‘t Schip this winter. However, it is quite surprising that the club ended up with Henderson in its search for such a player. After all, the midfielder opted for a particularly lucrative adventure in Saudi Arabia last summer, where Al-Ettifaq wanted to pay fourteen million euros for him and he reportedly earns 800 thousand euros per week (!).
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Earlier this week, however, various media reported that Henderson would regret his move to the Saudi Pro League. He would have difficulty settling in the country with a culture that is foreign to him. Moreover, he received a lot of criticism in his own country because he started working in Saudi Arabia, which is not known for its LGBTI-friendly laws. Henderson previously showed himself to be a champion of inclusivity in football and it was said that his transfer was difficult to reconcile with that.
Henderson, an 81-time England international, is said to have concluded that he wants to return to the Premier League ‘as soon as possible’, even being prepared to give up his sky-high fee. Football International confirms shortly after the first message from Romano that Ajax ‘wants to go far’ to bring the Englishman to Amsterdam this winter. “What speaks in favor of Ajax is that Henderson wants to go to the European Championship with England next summer and believes that the chance of a place in the selection of national coach Gareth Southgate is greater as a player for Ajax than as a player for a club from the right-hand row of the Premier League,” writes the weekly. The club would therefore ‘do everything in its power’ to entice the player to make a switch and hopes that the supervisory board will ‘give all the green signals’ to make the arrival of Henderson possible.
2024-01-09 13:07:01
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