Jordan Henderson ‘PR disaster’? His agent is a genius…

You must applaud the work finished by the agent of Jordan Henderson…

That is the Hend
Liverpudlian Brian Reade is ‘on the coronary heart of soccer’ so he’s busy writing about Jordan Henderson within the Each day Mirror two days after a collective madness on the information that the 31-year-old captain is getting into the ultimate two years of his contract together with Virgil van Dijk, Mo Salah, Fabinho, Roberto Firmino and Sadio Mane, amongst others. Perhaps he’s nearer to the outstretched arm of soccer fairly than the guts. And proper now, that arm is within the air, waving, whereas he shouts ‘Liverpool’s chiefs ought to recognise Henderson’s true worth…so get a brand new deal sorted NOW’.

Mediawatch has been via this earlier than nevertheless it’s price reiterating that Henderson nonetheless has two years left remaining on his Liverpool contract. Two years. His agent has finished a bloody wonderful job in convincing the media that this by some means constitutes a disaster.

To Reade’s credit score, he recognises this and writes that ‘someone is clearly making an attempt to pressure the membership’s hand by going public along with his discontent’ and provides no credence to the concept – as mooted by his colleagues – that Henderson might go away this summer season.

However when you have noticed the manipulation by Henderson’s brokers, then why write a column claiming that ‘this is one other PR catastrophe within the making that shouldn’t take an excessive amount of goodwill to unravel’ and that ‘Henderson is owed’ a brand new contract? He’s owed nothing; Liverpool are a enterprise they usually have an entire raft of gamers approaching or over 30. They can not give all of them new offers, particularly once they nonetheless have two complete bloody years remaining.

‘Hypothesis over the captain’s future can’t be allowed to float into subsequent season threatening disharmony within the dressing room and disquiet among the many followers.’

Any individual wants to inform Reade that long-serving and multiple-trophy-winning Chelsea captain Cesar Azpilicueta can also be 31 and he has simply one season remaining on his contract. Or is it solely a ‘PR catastrophe’ as a result of ‘this implies extra’ and Henderson’s agent is canny sufficient to control that?

‘Liverpool transfers – Jordan Henderson declare made amid Adam Hlozek curiosity’

…however delivers solely Eurosport‘s Dean Jones speaking sense:

“When it comes to Henderson, he’s not going to depart on this window. There’s no likelihood Liverpool are going to let him go away similtaneously Wijnaldum’s gone as a result of your complete staff begins to crumble.”

That’s not a ‘declare’, that’s only a assertion of truth. There’s – as ever – nothing to see right here.

Pog days are over (once more)
We study on the again web page of The Solar that ‘MANCHESTER UNITED are lining up German star Leon Goretzka amid mounting fears they are going to be pressured to promote Paul Pogba’.

‘Mounting fears’? ‘Compelled to promote’? What an terrible lot has modified since December, when The Sun told us that ‘FED-UP Manchester United chiefs need Paul Pogba out of the membership within the January switch window’.

‘Compelled to promote’? They’d bloody like to promote if anyone wished to present them nearly any sum of money.

As Neil Custis wrote actually two days in the past: ‘With only a yr left on Pogba’s contract, Solskjaer wants him on a brand new deal and a public dedication to United, or to promote.’

Let’s not fake that promoting Pogba is a few sort of catastrophe for Manchester United when you could have spent three years telling us he is on his way out.

Unique copying
On The Solar web site, they even have the nerve to say this Goretzka curiosity as an ‘unique’. Simply the 24-hours-plus after it appeared in Bild. Keep elegant, guys.

Varane away
Sticking with Manchester United, plainly their pursuit of Raphael Varane might have stalled. Or at the least it has in the event you consider the Each day Mirror web site, which you completely shouldn’t.

‘Actual Madrid might rethink Raphael Varane’s Man Utd switch as teammate’s want emerges’

His ‘teammate’ is a participant who has not but performed for Actual Madrid. And his ‘teammate’ David Alaba was requested about Varane at his unveiling and stated:

“Varane? Sure, I want to (play with him), after all. He has had a few years as a wonderful centre-back…nice.”

Lord is aware of what else the person was alleged to say? “Varane? No, he’s sh*t. He can f*** off for me.”?

Now he ‘might have put a halt to’ Actual’s plans to recoup as much as £50m for a participant that would as a substitute go away for nothing subsequent summer season. After all he bloody has.

Classes discovered
Tottenham beat Colchester 3-0 on Wednesday evening with a staff containing three of the gamers who began their final Premier League sport. So after all the Specific web site claims that ‘Nuno Espirito Santo learns 4 Tottenham switch classes from Colchester win’. We’re simply shocked it wasn’t 5.

However maybe it ought to have been three as a result of the final one made Mediawatch guffaw:

‘Dane Scarlett could be Harry Kane’s back-up, however not his substitute’

No sh*t. Thank God Nuno discovered earlier than he offered Kane.